Review of The Messenger

It is impressive to think that this is the first solo album by Johnny Marr. Because the former Smiths guitarist has never stopped over the years. He has played with almost everyone: Electronic (with Bernard Sumner of New Order), The The, Modest Mouse, Cribs, just to mention a few of the groups that has been part of the permanent staff. Then there are the Healers, which released an album in his name a few years ago - now partially disregarded. He was the leader of a band. Today is just Johnny Marr.
If you grew up in the 80s, you can go to "Generate! Generate. "You will have a sinking heart. But also the first song on "The right thing" is good. That riff, the sound.
Johnny Marr.
Almost no one has marked the English rock like him, with his guitar, wore everywhere: they were the Smiths or some other band. It 's like Peter Buck (another guitarist who marked an era) sounds everywhere recognize him, know his touch. Only Marr is a true nomad, and maybe this time has found a home.
Writes, and well. Sing, decent (better than Peter Buck, anyway). "The Messenger" is a real rock guitar clinic, to be studied by generations of musicians, both when it evokes the Smiths ("European me", with electric and acoustic guitars that overlap), and when he plays with the rhythms in backbeat of "the Messenger", where he gives lessons Strokes, Interpol and company sounding.
It says nothing new, of course: there is nothing shocking in these songs. There is style and there's so much. There is a concentration of a bright career, and there's Johnny Marr who finally takes the merits in the first person, without paying his work to the good of others. Enough, it is certain.