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There was exciting news this morning about the release on September 10 of a new Bob Dylan album, which if you haven't seen the official announcement is called Tempest. There was much talk of the record a few weeks ago, backstage at the Hop Farm Festival, where one or two people rather teasingly inferred they had heard it, or knew someone who had.
This could easily have been a lot of old bluff, of course, as until this morning the album didn't officially exist. But if what we managed to glean about it (via red hot pliers, socks full of sand used as coshes, the kind of treatment that loosens tongues) is even half-way true, Tempest sounds like it may turn out be Dylan's best album since at least Time Out Of Mind, a late-career peak, anyway, and maybe even better than that.
Needless to say, as soon as we are able, we'll be bringing you more news on the album, including a track listing when we have one, and not long after that, I hope, details of what it actually sounds like.