Morrissey: This is Morrissey (2018)

I bought the record with only a cursory glance at the track listing. I knew it was a compilation, but what an odd compilation it is. Have a look at this really awesome statement from Nitrous.McBread on Discogs:

Utterly bizarre choice of scraps from beneath the table of the increasingly laughable has-been. Parlophone seem to be doling out a bunch of industry sweeteners, allotting royalties-as-favours to various chums, cohorts and back-orifice management types. This is record company machination par excellence and has virtually nil to do with any pretence of offering a coherent set of songs in any kind of thought-out sequence. This album serves two purposes: firstly, persuading marginalised Morrissey fans (looked upon now as the deluded Scientologists of the music firmament) to part with yet more cash to further feather the nest of their curdled fuhrer; and secondly, to make the lyrics of The Smiths' "Paint A Vulgar Picture" even more staggeringly prescient. [source]

Now, I wouldn't go as far as to say that, but I will say that I fail to understand the song choices. It starts off well enough, but then we get Have-a-Go Merchant. What? And, the Mael Mix of Suedehead, which is truly awful. The record starts strong and ends strong, but to argue that "this is Morrissey" is a truly mystifying statement.