... outstanding piece of work.
The Bravest Man impresses on a steadily rising graph as Womack's soul-soaked voice humanises the machinery in ways rarely heard these days.
Tempest is Dylan's best musical album of this century, a vibrant maximising of strict rules and the savaged-leather state of that voice.
Intense, painfully frank, hysterically funny, and in the end, exultant... OSIGTS isn't always an easy listen, but it does offer a fearless experience that invests pop with more theatricality than the form can usually tolerate.
Old Ideas remain a quietly surprising album, full of grace, full of sadness, but also, most importantly, full of life.
While Blunderbuss appears to be definite off-loading of emotional baggage, it also feels like a move toward rebirth.