Johnny MarrBest Johnny Marr Albums Ranked

Fever Dreams Pts 1 - 4

nme

8.0

“During The Smiths’ ill-fated final recording session together in May 1987, Morrissey’s choice to cover a Cilla Black track proved to be the straw that broke the mopey indie camel’s back. Johnny Marr despised the song, and it’s quite fitting that the tune that split the band and sent him off into the big wide world was called ‘Work Is A Four Letter Word’. For Marr, work is like oxygen. The last fu”

Call the Comet

nme

8.0

“Johnny Marr‘s flowery and kaleidoscopic guitarwork offset against the dour and foreboding musings of Morrissey created that oddly obverse yet symbiotic dynamic that made The Smiths so essential. Who’d ever have imagined that over three decades later, their yin and yang would have moved into the realm of politics? Moz’s comments about Halal meat, Sadiq Khan’s accent and how Hitler was ‘left wing‘ ”

Call the Comet

thelineofbestfit

8.0

“Johnny Marr's Call The Comet faces the future with optimism and purpose”

The Messenger

pitchfork

6.3

“The Messenger is the big, bright, jangly guitar rock LP that Smiths fans would have killed for in 1994, full of fantastic guitar tones and cavernous choruses. But in 2013, it exists in its own, hermetically sealed context.”

Call the Comet

pitchfork

6.0

“The former Smiths guitarist absorbs the political shocks of 2016 on a characteristically polished album that imagines life in an alternate universe that values kindness, curiosity, and intelligence.”

Playland

pitchfork

4.6

“It's hard to imagine that the least satisfying thing Johnny Marr could ever do would be launching a solo career, yet here we are with Playland, the second official solo album by the former Smiths guitarist. The oppressive truth lurking behind almost every tired lick and lazy lyric of Playland is that Marr can, and has, done so much better.”