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Sep 5, 201290Tempest is fantastic, but being impressed by Dylan is old hat. That he still finds ways to surprise us is an achievement beyond all comprehension.
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Oct 2, 201284While at this stage of his career a new Dylan release may only be heard by longtime listeners, it must be judged against all music. Even by such lofty standards, Tempest succeeds enormously, placing it not only in the upper half of Dylan's catalog, but also with the better submissions of 2012.
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Sep 7, 201288Most of it is an inspired mix of blood and bawdiness.
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Sep 12, 201290The coherence of Tempest is the hypnotic key to its charm.
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Sep 5, 2012100Thirty-five albums in, Dylan remains as magical and mysterious as ever.
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Sep 11, 201283How much you admire this record will depend on how redolent you find two of them: the quiet jeremiad "Scarlet Town" and the quieter love-triangle cut-'em-up "Tin Angel.
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Dec 4, 201290Surprisingly, Dylan has never been more deliberate or so overtly savage. [No. 93, p.54]
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Sep 19, 2012100Tempest is Dylan's best musical album of this century, a vibrant maximising of strict rules and the savaged-leather state of that voice. [Oct 2012, p.84]
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Sep 11, 201290There aren't many records like this one, and if you give it time and it catches you, you'll probably still be listening to it when the deal goes down and your own ship comes in.
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Sep 17, 201285We're now at a place where we can pretty well look at Dylan's career as, essentially, an entire body of work--and, even when considering all of the obvious highlights of his past half-century, Tempest still stands out.
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Sep 4, 2012100[Tempest is] a thing to behold.
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Sep 11, 201290Tempest's epic scale and grandeur makes his few previous albums look like short stories leading up to a great novel.
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Sep 11, 2012100Tempest is in many respects the most far-reaching, provocative and transfixing album of Dylan's later career.