So the short version for the description of the album might be, but Van Morrison Van Morrison would not be if that were not taken too short. With its now 35th studio album, he can look back on a long career and many many bands. And so he creates with the song choice and this particular Best Of, but the perennial favorites like Brown Eyed Girl spares fortunately times, a small monument. Not only should he have chosen all duet partner even to the songs because he respected their music and would like to cooperate with you time, no, he is said to have also insisted on standing in the studio together, face to face. Especially today with so much tricks in the mixtures, it is not necessarily normal the musicians or singers do not see in a song at all. But this promotes clearly the mood of the album, so that we can recognize a good chemistry here, which creates a wonderfully harmonious album with the typical Van Morrison Sound. It has to be soulful just not always noisy but prefer. And he is with his ensemble old variables and New Comern impressively demonstrated. An outstanding album, albeit not a masterpiece.
When talking about record can be additionally only satisfied. Sony Music / RCA delights us with a lovingly designed gatefold cover where instead stuck to the surprise of no times 180 grams boards has one apparently paid attention to produce high quality. A bill which rises because the proportion of allegedly audiophile 180s which is sound bad just too high. The two discs stuck in plain white Papiersleeves have this but survived well in my case. The arm anyway I could not notice any damage while listening, so runs smoothly over the plate and directs neither in the air nor in the pages too. My overall positive image of Sony confirms. The only drawback, unfortunately neither CD nor a download code is on board. Here the packet would have been well rounded.