Van Morrison has shared the title track from his new double album, Latest Record Project: Volume 1 , set to arrive May 7th via Exile/BMG. "Latest Record Project" is a cheeky bit of classic yet self-aware soul. It finds Morrison pairing vintage sonics — Hammond organ, shuffling drums, backing vocalists cooing "sha-la-la" — with the musings of an artist who has a back catalog packed with hits but hasn't ceased making new music: "Have you got my latest songs I'm singing?/You got my latest songs I'm singing?/Not something from so long ago/Not something that you might want to know/But something I can relate to in the present." In a statement, Morrison said: "I'm getting away from the perceived same songs, same albums all the time. This guy's done 500 songs, maybe more, so hello? Why do you keep promoting the same 10? I'm trying to get out of the box." Latest Record Project: Volume 1 boasts a whopping 28 songs, which Morrison wrote and recorded while in quarantine — not something the musician has been particularly fond of . Per a release, the album will feature at least one song about life in lockdown, "Dead Beat Saturday Night," although the… Read full this story
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