For a band who were together for only five years, The Smiths left quite the cultural footprint. It seems as if Johnny Marr has spent the nearly 40 years since the band’s split throwing himself into everything – whether it be joining Modest Mouse or The Cribs, recording with fellow Mancunian legend Bernard Sumner in Electronic and even appearing on the panel show Would I Lie to You.
When it comes to Marr’s solo material though, there always seems something slightly missing. The Age of Everything is his fifth solo album, and one that the man himself has called the first record that he feels completely comfortable with. It definitely contains some of his best solo material to date, and while there may be no surprises contained within, it’s a very solid record all in all.
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Skim through my concert bucket list and find Johnny Marr, most likely sitting between some random all-acoustic folk singer who last wrote a good song in the late Seventies and an Indie band that the NME tried to push to popularity in the mid-Noughties. A personal guitar hero and one of the few cool people to once be friends with Morrissey, Marr and his music carry this sort of indescribable presence. The intricacies of his genius fall into the seams of each song, whether that be his role as guitarist of The Smiths, as member of supergroup Electronic or amongst any one of the many musical collaborations Marr has added his musicianship to. And just over forty years later, he continues with impressive appeal, with his solo work declaring his ability to not be confined by the definition…