Tempest

pitchfork

For all its detours toward sadness and alienation, death is the real story on Bob Dylan's latest album, very much a record about The End. He's learned, at 71, that death doesn't necessarily come with a lesson, that sometimes it just comes.

rollingstone

Bob Dylan's 35th album begins with a train whistle exploding in his mind. He sees an old oak tree he used to climb and imagines a woman smiling through a fence. He hears the voice of "the mother of our Lord" – and still, that whistle, screaming "like the sky's gonna blow apart." It's astonishing, […]