Morrissey returns with a more rock sound on his ninth solo album, 'Ringleader of the Tormentors', which is due out this spring on the Attack/Sanctuary record label.
A preview on Billboard.com, said that the album had a "thicker, more rock-driven sound".
Produced by Tony Visconti and recorded in Rome, film composer Ennio Morricone scores the string arrangement on one song while an Italian children's choir can be heard on several others.
Guitarist/songwriter and former Red Hot Chili Pepper Jesse Tobias made a "marked difference" in the sound of 'Ringleader...', according to Morrissey.
The 12-track album is the follow-up to 2004's 'You Are the Quarry', which debuted at Number 11 on The Billboard 200.
