For a band that was so deeply in constant personnel flux and ready to implode that they might as well have been billed Van Morrison and Some Other Guys We Found, Them had their shit together just enough to record a sophomore album that still sounded like a band ready to conquer the world. Morrison’s not yet quite the bucolic poet of the heart that we get on Astral Weeks, but of the handful of originals we get on the album’s UK pressing, there’s a surprising fury to the wistful “My Lonely Sad Eyes” and the unguarded romanticism of “Hey Girl” that show glimpses of that future. Aside from that, Van and the band have a lifer show band’s worth of facility with the hits, but still with a young-and-hungry energy that makes their versions of rock-and-soul standards like “Turn On Your Love Light,” “I Put a Spell on You,” and “I Can Only Give You Everything” top-tier rave-ups. To say nothing of their crystalline take on “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” which swaps out Dylan’s embittered exhaustion for Van’s seething regret and gleams like a tarnished jewel.