1972’s St. Dominic’s Preview found Van on the best commercial run of his career, turning out hit singles and radio staples at a rapid rate on his previous three albums. This record delivers another great one, the winsome “Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)” – a perfect, infectious horn-inflected tribute to the late soul legend and as undeniable a hit as anything he has ever written. But on this knotty, beautiful and complicated album, one observes Morrison’s artistically restless side emerging again, with bold assertiveness on tracks like the ten-plus-minute closer “Almost Independence Day” and the even longer still slow burn of side two’s mission statement “Listen To The Lion”, which features one of his greatest ever vocals. Best of all is the title track, a secular hymn that simultaneously addresses his ambivalence about the excesses of the music industry and reconnects him with his spiritual roots. Powerful work from an artist on a major league winning streak.