After spending the better part of the past month in a public spat with his former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr, Morrissey has now announced that he’s “severed all connections” with his management.

The announcement came in the form of a very to-the-point statement posted on Morrissey’s website, which read: “Morrissey has severed all connections with Red Light Management / Pete Galli Management.” Beyond that, there are no details as to why the parties parted ways, but Morrissey had only signed with Red Light this past February, making their working relationship a relatively short one.

Of course, the timing of this seems to align with all the recent Smiths drama. In the past few weeks, Morrissey claimed that Marr ignored a Smiths reunion request, blocked the publishing of a Smiths greatest hits album, and unilaterally acquired trademark rights to the group’s name (which Morrissey claimed gave Marr the power...