New Van Morrison album is out I see
Van Morrison: Latest Record Project Volume 1 review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
It’s an album you listen to while metaphorically pushing food around your plate and biting your tongue: there’s no point in saying anything back... because you’ll get a response like Only a Song, effectively an indignant splutter of “I’m just having my say” set to music. But in truth, it’s not really what he says so much as how he says it. The tone isn’t anything as stirring or exciting as anger, just endless peevish discontent and sneering dismissal, the latter reaching a peak with Jealousy, on which Morrison announces that anyone who disagrees with him is envious of his nonpareil insight into the way things really are: “I’m not a slave to the system like you.”
Van Morrison: Latest Record Project Volume 1 review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
It’s an album you listen to while metaphorically pushing food around your plate and biting your tongue: there’s no point in saying anything back... because you’ll get a response like Only a Song, effectively an indignant splutter of “I’m just having my say” set to music. But in truth, it’s not really what he says so much as how he says it. The tone isn’t anything as stirring or exciting as anger, just endless peevish discontent and sneering dismissal, the latter reaching a peak with Jealousy, on which Morrison announces that anyone who disagrees with him is envious of his nonpareil insight into the way things really are: “I’m not a slave to the system like you.”