Van Morrison's 'Latest Record Project': Album Review
Rolling Stone Van Morrison’s ‘Latest Record Project’ Is a Delightfully Terrible Study in Casual Grievance His repetition sounds less like the trance-like mysticism of a Caledonia poet and more like a furious customer demanding a refund. By Bradley Quinn* In 1967, Van Morrison recorded 31 perverse one-minute ditties in order to fulfill his record contract. The off-the-cuff songs, brimming with contempt for just about everything in the young singer-songwriter’s orbit –– the Sixties, rock & roll, scoring a surprise hit with “Brown Eyed Girl” –– established a ...