The mystifying chasm between Van Morrison’s personality and music became total with last year’s Latest Record Project Volume 1, as masterfully sung, textbook R&B rolled under biliously paranoid words.

Van Morrison – Remembering Now Reviewed: His best album in decades The Belfast cowboy’s first set of originals since 2022 finds him back in the moment - and soaring.

That the new measure of a Van Morrison record is whether it is politically problematic, or simply dull. Any real hope of a comeback album, a bona fide late-era classic, dissipated years ago.

This double album takes Van Morrison back to one of his early muses – Skiffle and its repertoire, that precursor to the rock'n'roll years that took hold of Britain in the 1950s, having percolated ...

Van Morrison’s hi-fi take on the Great Skiffle Songbook involves slick production values and massed doo-wop and gospel backing vocals, writes Fiona Shepherd ...

Into this context comes Remembering Now – a solidly enjoyable album sits as many leagues above Morrison’s recent slump as it does below his best work.

It would be very, very easy to go overboard when discussing Van Morrison’s new album, Remembering Now. The 79-year-old Northern Irishman’s latest release, his first album of original songs ...

It would be very, very easy to go overboard when discussing Van Morrison’s new album, Remembering Now. The 79-year-old Northern Irishman’s latest release, his first album of original songs ...