Not clear who's the author of the opinion below. This morning's hard copy of the NY Times has a John Williams byline, but the online version fingers Janet Maslin as the clueless perp. It's a mystifying, "incomprehensible"  opinion on that great Van Morrison album from days of yore:

Here’s a wonderfully oddball companion piece of sorts: Ryan H. Walsh’s “Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968,” which takes its title from the well-loved but largely incomprehensible Van Morrison album. This isn’t a book about Morrison — who, according to this account, was himself mostly incomprehensible when “Astral Weeks” was conceived...

More from the album.