DYLAN ALBUM WOWS CRITICS
BOB DYLAN’s first studio album in nearly five years has wowed critics across America, one of whom insists listeners will be "in the presence of greatness" within 30 seconds of hearing it.
MODERN TIMES, the follow-up to 2001 release LOVE AND THEFT, has had Rolling Stone magazine falling over itself with praise, claiming the record is the rocker’s "third straight masterwork, evenly divided between blues ready-mades, old-timey two-steps and stately marches full of prophecy".
Blender magazine believes that "nobody can stop him, and the world is better for it".
The 65-year-old icon chronicles the state of society since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 "in a sly fox sort of way", according to TOM MOON of National Public Radio.
He adds, "Dylan just glances at current events and that’s all it takes for him to conjure up the dread of the age." Meanwhile, STEVE JONES of USA Today claims that Dylan displays his "most direct love lyrics, vindictive vendettas, meditations on mortality, pointed political commentary, dry wit, apocalyptic imagery and head-scratching flights of fancy - at times all in the same song".
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