Pleased to be of service re: Spooky Action. It’s not in the same league as Six, but it is a very good record from an artist who never really got his due. One track’s a Dominic Chad co-write, too, which gives hope for the future.
In terms of my top 2, Peasant is one of the strangest and most affecting albums I’ve ever heard. On first listen, I felt an almost visceral dislike for it but after forcing myself to give it more time, the beauty began to filter through and now it’s one of a handful of albums from this decade to have earned a place in my all time top ten (I probably shouldn’t mention this on a Morrissey forum but the others are Have One On Me by Joanna Newsom and 90 Bisodol (Crimond) by Half Man Half Biscuit). I’ve expounded at more length in my Amazon review if you’re interested, but I probably shouldn’t link to it here.
How The West Was Won is a more mainstream rock album, but a very well done one from a musician who most people would’ve thought had been lost to a drugs habit years ago. It’s only his second album in 40 years and it’s terrific, lyrically and musically. Even without the backstory, it would have been brilliant but when everything is taken into consideration, it’s magnificent and the love songs to his wife of nearly fifty years are incredibly moving.