Van Morrison – Remembering Now (2-LP Vinyl)
Review
Forty-seven albums into a 58-year recording career, Van Morrison proves he’s still got things to say and play on Remembering Now.
Though it runs some 70 minutes, the album has nothing that qualifies as filler among its 14 tracks, reinforcing the 79-year-old Morrison’s astonishing late-career creativity.
Morrison writes about his music (the title track), gratitude (“Love, Lover and Beloved”) and his youth in Northern Ireland on “Stomping Ground;” the latter pair being but two of a handful of orchestral ballads that recall Morrison’s Enlightenment era.
And Morrison does a lot of recycling on Remembering Now, most obviously on “If it Wasn’t for Ray,” a slowed-down recasting of “Wild Night,” and the “Tupelo Honey” soundalike that is “Haven’t Lost My Sense of Wonder.”
Amid these rehashes are a couple of tracks headed for Morrison’s canon. “Down to Joy” is a horn-driven delight casting the prickly singer in contentment and “Cutting Corners” is a humble admission of Morrison “feeling low but … acting strong;” both would fit nicely on a concert playlist loaded with classics from his discography.
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Product Details
Van Morrison has never really left, but *Remembering Now* feels like a genuine arrival, the kind of sprawling, genre-fluid statement that calls back to the restless spirit of *Astral Weeks* and *Veedon Fleece* without trying to replicate either. At 79, he's still drawing from the same deep well of Belfast soul, Celtic mysticism, and American roots music that's made him one of the most singular voices in the canon.
Van Morrison's new album, Remembering Now, marks his return to original music with a rich blend of soul, jazz, blues, folk and country, featuring the long-awaited single, “Down To Joy.”
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
Side C
Side D
UPC: 044003445659
Label: Exile
Release Date: 6.13.25
Format: LP Vinyl