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Mar 30, 2017Though all but one (Beggin’) were recorded by Frank Sinatra, Dylan is unintimidated by their pedigree.
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Mar 28, 2017You can hear allusions Dylan has made to some of these lyrics in his own work over the last few decades, which makes the collection all the more revelatory. And he sings as gorgeously and clearly as he possibly can, as if it’s more important to him than ever that we feel his love.
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Mar 30, 2017A song isn't a song without melody, harmony and voice. Time and again he proves the same thing on Triplicate.
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Mar 28, 2017The world is undeniably richer for his guided tour through the trove of songs that helped lay the foundation for American music.
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Mar 29, 2017Triplicate allows us to experience the rare and intimate pleasure of listening to an artist connect with, and express the subtle and infinite joys suggested by a great song.
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Mar 31, 2017Dylan has grown into that role, whether through divine inspiration or sheer repetition. He’s musically simpatico with his veteran touring band, and like Joni Mitchell on her later records, his voice has deepened, developed an appealing smokiness.
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The WireAug 8, 2017Triplicate’s greatest triumph is to strip cheap sentiment from the poetry by dimming the lacquer of the brass and muting the swagger of the singer, leaving the songs to crackle like revenant vignettes in the wireless of the mind. [May 2017, p.63]
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Apr 18, 2017While Dylan fans surely miss his original tunes, this honest, affecting tribute to a bygone era of music is a treat in itself.
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Apr 7, 2017Triplicate proves that his ability to interpret the Great American Songbook is equally worthy of recognition.
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Apr 6, 2017His delivery is tender and delicate, his phrasing measured and sharp, and to the point that the voice cracks and flat notes that do inevitably arise seem by design, only adding to his emotional vulnerability. Acting as producer under his pseudonym Jack Frost, Dylan pristinely captures the subtle dynamics of his live touring band, adding only subdued horn charts by James Harper.
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Apr 3, 2017It’s a wisely curated selection--despite these not being Dylan’s lyrics, it’s impossible to listen to the likes of September of My Years and not hear the resonance of autobiography.
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Mar 31, 2017Triplicate is not a shining hour for Dylan when put into the full context of his fifty-plus-year career. But nonetheless, his insuppressible spirit is baked into every moonstruck moment.
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Mar 31, 2017If Dylan learned anything from Sinatra, it's how to drill to the core of the song. Dylan does just that on Triplicate, finding the heart beating within some old warhorses and placing them within several great American musical traditions, and that's why this cements his place as one of the most distinctive interpreters of the Great American Songbook.
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MagnetApr 14, 2017He's all over the phrasing but never sloppily and always expeessively. [No. 141, p.52]
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Apr 5, 2017It’s a truly overwhelming amount of a somewhat good thing.
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UncutMar 28, 2017For all its easy charms, Triplicate labours its point to the brink of overkill. After five albums' worth of croon toons, this feels like a fat full stop on a fascinating chapter. [May 2017, p.22]
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Apr 19, 2017The sheer volume of material on offer soon succumbs to the law of diminishing returns.
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Apr 6, 2017One does get the sense of life behind these performances, of private experience refracted through universal sentiment, of hard knocks transubstantiated into easy wisdom, but, as is often the case with Bob Dylan, the drama remains mostly internal.
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Mar 23, 2020I dont need to listen all the album, with I could have told you I'm ok. Thanks bobi, hope coronavirus dont kill u
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