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: Latest Record Project Volume 1 album coverMorrison’s longstanding sense of distrust – the result of some dubious contracts he signed in the 1960s – long ago calcified into a weltanschauung in which everyone was lying, with the exception of a certain Northern Irish singer. It’s MI5 this and mind-control that, secret “meetings in the forest”, mainstream media lies and Kool Aid being drunk by the gallon. This tinfoil millinery is interspersed with a variety of more predictable and even more enervating rants. Should anyone be wondering the same thing, Latest Record Project then answers said question in the most exhaustive detail imaginable.

Source: The Guardian May 06, 2021 10:30 UTC