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Sep 28, 2016Morrison’s voice has lost some of its sheer power, but he has retained all of its deep expressiveness, still every bit the otherworldly musical instrument it’s been for the past half-century.
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Q MagazineSep 28, 2016There are some exquisite songs here. [Nov 2016, p.111]
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MojoSep 28, 2016Hard blues, soul and R&B take a back seat to pop tunes with a elegant turn. [Oct 2016, p.92]
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UncutSep 28, 2016Whatever it is that keeps him singing still packs a potent emotional punch. [Oct 2016, p.35]
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Nov 4, 2016The old guy is largely content to accept the human situation and focus on the positive--the bliss of memory, the power of art, transcendent nature, and such. Maybe that’s more insurgent than it seems. But the album is lovely and perhaps that is all that matters.
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Sep 29, 2016Morrison delivers each of these songs with attentiveness; the material is consistently presented with finesse. Nothing further is required.
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Sep 28, 2016The return to familiarity is a welcome one.
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Sep 29, 2016Through arrangements elegant to a fault, his mercurial tenor, more supple and restrained, remains a marvel.
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Sep 28, 2016There’s something of the warmth and fulfilment of Tupelo Honey about the album generally.
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Oct 7, 2016The tracks drift by like soporific imitations of past glories--for the most part there’s nothing especially wrong with the songs, they just sound as if they could have been composed using a Van Morrison Song Generator.