Astral Weeks (Expanded Edition)
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Album • Nov 01 / 1968 • 12 songs, 1h 14m 6s
Singer-Songwriter
Chamber Folk
Popular
There’s never been anything like *Astral Weeks*—not before or since. Parting with the straightforward, R&B-based rock of his past, a young Van Morrison embraced his love of jazz, blues, folk, and poetry all at once. The thrillingly transcendent journey finds him mixing bittersweet childhood memories and in-the-moment reveries like a folk-rock James Joyce. His soulful voice soars over a constantly shifting, almost impressionistic landscape of fluid, jazzy lines, gentle strumming, and shimmering orchestrations. The magic Morrison created here is as otherworldly as the title suggests.