1978’s Wavelength is the last table setter before Morrison’s late 70’s and 80’s run of classics. Moreso than its predecessor A Period Of Transition, this seems like the real transition – opener “Kingdom Hall” is a remarkable distillation of his early soul classics combined with a rock edge and a gospel atmosphere. The utterly unique sound he would arrive at the following year with Into The Music and pursue at least through Avalon Sunset is nearly developed here — Morrison seems practically pregnant with it. The burbling synths and New Wave style drums of the title track border on the revelatory and would not sound out of place on the Destroyer classic Kaputt. Still, the stitches are showing on the nine-minute closer “Take It Where You Find It”, a would-be epic that is ultimately drowned in its overly bright arrangement of ostentatious guitar, synths and gospel singers. Van is close to a whole new musical vocabulary, but no laurel yet.