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The Belfast Cowboy goes full white Van man on his bewilderingly silly new album

USA TODAY It's Friday, which means there's a batch of new music to carry us through the weekend. This week we have a buffet of projects from artists in different genres, from Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall and Jack Ingram's new country album "The Marfa Tapes" to British rock band Coldplay's upbeat, motivational single "Higher Power."  Pop sisters Aly and AJ are back with a new studio album, which they say captures "that West Coast energy" on the 12-track project.  Rapper J. Cole also teases his upcoming album with the release of his new single, titled "Interlude." Here's what we're adding ...

Print Van Morrison has a new album out, and the initial reaction is pretty bad. And that’s not even including allegations of anti-Semitism made against him over a song called “They Own the Media.” Since the pandemic hit, the “Brown Eyed Girl” singer-songwriter has been railing against lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, putting out a handful of protest songs that courted plenty of controversy. But “Latest Record Project, Vol. 1,” a new two-hour, 28-track double album, doesn’t include those tunes. Instead, it veers off in a conspiratorially cranky direction with...

Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 08.36 EDT Even a man as implacably opposed to lockdown as Van Morrison – who spent 2020 releasing songs rubbishing science as “crooked facts”, mocking people for wearing masks and describing the government as “fascist bullies” while also invoking the Berlin Wall – might be forced to concede it had its advantages. After all, it gave him the time to write the material for Latest Record Project Volume 1, a 28-song, two-hour-plus opus that allows him to set out his latterday worldview more fully than any previous work. Van Morrison: La...

Van Morrison's Latest Record Project Vol 1 is his 42nd studio album Credit: Bradley Quinn It is sometimes said of great vocalists that they could sing the phone book and make it worth listening to. Well, there are moments on Van Morrison’s new album when you may find yourself wishing he would just wrap his golden vocal cords around a text as unremarkable as a telephone directory, and stop bloody moaning. The Northern Irish singer-songwriter is 75, still in remarkably fine voice, and clearly filled with creative energy; this, you might think, would give him at least something to be grateful ...