Album Review: Bob Dylan (U.S.A.), Tempest, Released: 10.09.2012, Label: Columbia, Available on Double Vinyl (Comes with 'free' C.D. Version), C.D., C.D. Deluxe & MP3 Download Album.
Track Titles noted in bold, I feel to the be the best tracks on the album.Tracks:
1.) Duquesne Whistle; very jolly, upbeat and rolls along nicely.
2.) Soon After Midnight; very beautiful, lovely restrained piece.
3.) Narrow Way; more gruff, perfectly serviceable.
4.) Long and Wasted Years; passes gently.
5.) Pay in Blood; very pleasant.
6.) Scarlet Town; classic brooding Dylan, with a touch of menace.
7.) Early Roman Kings; poorer, repetitive chugging tune, a dip after the quality of Scarlet Town.
8.) Tin Angel; from the off sounds like classic Dylan. The song stands up to comparison with the best of him.
9.) Tempest; the one about the sinking of the Titanic, which would usually make me recoil in horror, though is it is quite beautiful.
10.) Roll on John; the one about John Lennon, so I'm not disposed to be favorable, due to the subject matter. More aggressive than the previous piece, not as pleasing, though still perfectly listenable.
The six track tracks I have highlighted as being the best songs, I would regard as being of a very high standard, and up with Dylan's best. As it is six out of ten as far as tracks go, and it is not eight of them or the full ten, I don't feel it is fair to say as some have that the album is up with Dylan's very best work, I have heard comparison with 'Blonde on Blonde' and 'Blood on the Tracks'. Having said this I do feel it is a very good album, and it may be reasonable to say it is best since the seventies.
Rating: 09/10. (Purchased on Vinyl).
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