Johnny Marr makes The Age of Everything sound like guitar music staring down the future

Johnny Marr’s The Age Of Everything arrives in the 16 June news cycle with a title that feels both exhausted and strangely hopeful. The former Smiths guitarist has announced his fifth solo album and shared Spin, the first preview of a record written in London, shaped on the road in North America and recorded in Manchester. That geography matters because Marr’s music has always carried movement: city streets, jangling architecture, nervous energy and the feeling that a guitar can still make modern life look slightly more elegant. The album reportedly deals with overwhelm, technology, good, bad and the possibility hiding inside cultural fatigue. That is a very Marr-like position: not blind optimism, not gloomy resignation, but a belief that motion itself may still save us. Spin sounds like a first step into that argument, with the old six-string future machine still humming.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/news/johnny-marr-announces-the-age-of-everything-album/