- jazz
- 50 min
- 11 tracks
Keep It Simple is the thirty-third album by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison, released in the UK on 17 March 2008 and in the US on 1 April 2008. It was Morrison's first US Top 10 album, and made the Top 10 in the UK, Canada and in some European countries. It was his first studio album of all new original material since Back on Top (1999), and includes elements of jazz, folk, blues, celtic, country, soul and gospel.
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Spare, character-led, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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Metacritic 69/100
- Allmusic3/5 ★
- Entertainment Weekly(B)
- inthenews.co.uk8/10 ★
- The Mirror5/5 ★
- Popmatters7/10 ★
- Rolling Stone3.5/5 ★
- The Star4/5 ★
- Uncut4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1How Can a Poor Boy?5:43
- 2School of Hard Knocks3:44
- 3That’s Entrainment4:32
- 4Don’t Go to Nightclubs Anymore4:31
- 5Lover Come Back5:15
- 6Keep It Simple3:34
- 7End of the Land3:16
- 8Song of Home4:13
- 9No Thing4:31
- 10Soul3:37
- 11Behind the Ritual6:59
11 tracks, 50 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Van Morrison
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
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