![]() And the paranoia that has been creeping steadily into his music is dead center. It swings, it ponders, but it never surprises. Too Long in Exile, his 22nd studio release, effortlessly continues this pattern. Always an amazingly talented singer, Van has been relying too heavily on foolproof jazz-lite back-drops for his vocal gymnastics. And the paranoia Though he forever pines for his lost youth, drops the heaviest names in the arts-and-letters biz (this time out it’s Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett and the perennial James Joyce) and loses himself in obscure mystic reveries, Van Morrison has had trouble getting his vision to take flight for the past decade or so. Always an amazingly talented singer, Van has been relying too heavily on foolproof jazz-lite backdrops for his vocal gymnastics. Though he forever pines for his lost youth, drops the heaviest names in the arts-and-letters biz (this time out it’s Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett and the perennial James Joyce) and loses himself in obscure mystic reveries, Van Morrison has had trouble getting his vision to take flight for the past decade or so. ![]()
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