Album Review: Van Morrison - Keep Me Singing

Got a dinner party coming up? Slip Keep Me Singing into the playlist and you'll have no trouble focusing on your company and the meal. Van Morrison returns for his 36th - yep, 36th - record.

While the 71-year-old is still a master of big band arrangement, and his voice still holds the same caramel tone it has for decades, for much of Keep Me Singing his lyrics get lost in his vocal delivery. There's no real standout moment across the 13 tracks that make up this record; rather it trudges along being far from horrible, but totally unremarkable.