'Years of Refusal' is his first Polydor studio album
NEW YORK -- Originally due in September, Morrissey's next record album, "Years of Refusal," has been postponed until early 2009, according to the artist's publicizer. No extra information was given about the date change.
The 12-track "Refusal" was produced by Jerry Finn, who helmed Morrissey's 2004 album "You are the Quarry." Last month, Finn suffered a severe head hemorrhage and remains hospitalized in Los Angeles.
"Years of Refusal" will be Morrissey's first studio apartment album since signing with Polydor last year. It's the followup to 2006's "Ringleader of the Tormentors," which has sold 98,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Plans ar still in the kit and boodle for Sony BMG to reissue Morrissey's 1995 record album "Southpaw Grammar" with remastered audio, three previously unreleased tracks and new art, but no date has been sic.
