"Like his peer Bob Dylan, Morrison has found resonance in singing standards of a sort. This time around they're all of his own design, and his fitful, relentless desire for cosmic fulfillment animates them. Comfortably appointed in his twilight years, he's still chasing enlightenment, haunted by "the things I might not yet know," as he puts it on "Dark Night of the Soul." For Morrison, there are always mysteries left to articulate".