- Record Label: Amnesty International
- Release Date: Jan 24, 2012
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Jan 30, 2012There's plenty more good and bad.
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Jan 23, 2012Cut half the roster on Chimes and you've got an amazing lineup of Dylan's peers and admirers.
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Jan 23, 201275 tracks from as many artists, ranging from the trad (Pete Townshend's "Corrina, Corrina", the upbeat old-time of Carolina Chocolate Drops' "Political World") to the rad (Sussan Deyhim's "All I Really Want to Do", Ke$ha's pleasingly pared "Don't Think Twice…").
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Feb 23, 2012Dylan covers are always a polarizing product, yet even purists will find moments on Chimes of Freedom worthy of the legacy it extols.
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Jan 25, 2012Most of the artists here perform a similar trick, choosing love songs over protests, keeping things intimate instead of anthemic. Naturally, there are exceptions to the rule, but the scales on Chimes of Freedom are tipped toward pretty stripped-down sincerity.
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Jan 23, 2012The savviest musicians here flip Dylan's messages for their own aims, just as Dylan reappropriated protest songs by civil rights heroes....There's just one problem. That leaves 60-something more songs, and an unholy amount of strummy-strummy-strum.
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Feb 6, 2012Dazzling songs, dismally sung.
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Feb 1, 2012The success of the album is ultimately dependent on the listener's familiarity with the original songs.
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MojoJan 31, 2012Some of the best covers here are of less overtly politicized Dylan songs. [Feb 2012, p.95]
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Jan 30, 2012The interpretations range from the admirable to the abysmal.
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Jan 24, 2012Revelation and humor are in as short supply as hip-hop; instead, you get a good catchall for a great cause, with head-scratchers and surprises side by side.
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UncutJan 23, 2012Some tracks suffer, not from a lack of inherent quality but from the fact that you've already heard any number of perfectly decent, faithful reading of them. [Feb 2012, p.88]
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Feb 2, 2012A largely redundant – and frequently downright woeful – endeavour.