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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Sep 12, 2012 2:45 PM UTC  Amazon by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Sep 12, 2012 2:45 PM UTC  _This post is in partnership with_ [_Consequence of Sound_](http://consequenceofsound.net/)_, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene._ “Well, I think of myself more as a song and dance man,” a young, smirking [Bob Dylan](http://consequenceofsound.net/tag/bob-dylan/) once told a room of San Francisco press. Why not a fisherman? Media and Zimmy diehards alike have nibbled on every little line that Dylan — or at least his PR team — has dropped since first announcing the release of _Tempest_, his 35th studio album. We balked at the high school Photoshop cover art. _That can’t be for real_. We soon set aside our justifiable skepticism regarding the 14-minute title track about the Titanic. _Sounds good to me, and he name-drops Leo!_ And we just smiled and shook our heads as Dylan strolled through town in the video for “Duquesne Whistle.” _What’s he doing out with a Gene Simmons look-alike in full Kiss makeup?_ (**MORE**: [Life Lessons from Bob Dylan](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/09/05/life-lessons-from-bob-dylan/)) But the most tantalizing bait was that album title. Some ivory-tower stuffed shirt — or whoever got to Wikipedia first — noted that _The Tempest_ was likely the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. _Hold those “thousand telephones that don’t ring.”_ Would this be Dylan’s last record? And would this really be how the man who gave us _Blonde on Blonde_ and _Blood on the Tracks_ chose to go out — with the Kiss Army? Dylan soon dispelled the notion that this was his final time in the studio, but still, what to make of that title? Simply put, _Tempest_ is the perfect storm of everything we love, can’t stand, and just shrug our shoulders about when it comes to late-era Bob Dylan. _Tempest_ delivers yet another collection of the ramblers that have populated Dylan’s records since _Time Out of Mind_. When his tight-knit touring band — Charlie Sexton, Tony Garnier, George Receli, Donnie Herron and Stu Kimball — lock into a groove, the best of these songs (“Dusquesne Whistle,” “Narrow Way” and “Pay in Blood”) swing, tumble and glisten infectiously beneath Dylan’s lively rasp and growl. Everything about opener “Duquesne Whistle” — from its old-timey preamble and driving chug to Dylan’s ragged urging of “Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’” — glows brightly and suggests that Dylan still has plenty of track ahead of him. “Early Roman Kings,” on the other hand, never finds its legs, hobbling on an oscillating accordion part that grows grating after only a few verses. (**PHOTOS**: [A Year and a Day with Bob Dylan](http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/19/a-year-and-a-day-with-bob-dylan/#ixzz25WKXZc00)) On much of _Tempest_, listeners are guided by a still-yearning Dylan through a depraved and slouching world whose center cannot hold — or maybe it can, and that’s what’s gone so terribly wrong over the years. “Scarlet Town,” thematically reminiscent of “Ain’t Talkin’,” teeters on Donnie Herron’s banjo as Dylan depicts life in the type of place where you “put your heart on a platter/ and see who’ll bite.” The dark environs of gentle ballad “Soon After Midnight” reveal Dylan “standing in the doorway cryin’” all over again, his voice still able to conjure a gravelly sweetness on a line like “It’s soon after midnight/ and I don’t want nobody but you.” Closing numbers “Tempest” and “Roll on John” drew the bulk of pre-release curiosity, thanks to press releases teasing with promises of an epic narrative of the Titanic’s tragic voyage and a tribute to John Lennon, respectively. Despite Dylan being in excellent voice, the nearly 14-minute “Tempest” (unlike its bloody nine-minute predecessor, “Tin Angel”) proves little more than an endurance test, the sheer duration and repetitiveness of the song making its final fade-out an act of mercy. While critics are rightfully praising its poetic ambition and inventive storytelling, most listeners will only stow away on this voyage with Dylan once or twice before abandoning ship for good. (**MORE**: [Fall Arts Preview](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/08/20/fall-arts-preview-this-seasons-most-anticipated-films-shows-art-and-more/slide/cat-power-sun/#cat-power-sun)) “Shine your light/ Movin’ on/ You burn so bright/ Roll on, John,” sings Dylan on the more accessible “Roll on John,” which pieces together bits of Lennon biography with lyrical excerpts from Beatles songs like “Come Together” and “A Day in the Life.” But maybe the most important allusion here is the final verse’s reference to William Blake’s “The Tyger,” a poem in which the speaker poses questions about the tyger’s creator. And _Tempest_ really feels like Dylan’s tyger — beautiful, frightening, and altogether strange. But it’s all his creation, and that’s the point, really. Whether or not we are willing to weather all of _Tempest_ with him, Bob Dylan rolls on. **Essential Tracks:** “Dusquesne Whistle,” “Pay in Blood” **More from Consequence of Sound:** [Album Review: Calexico – _Algiers_](http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/09/album-review-calexico-algiers/) **More from Consequence of Sound:** [Neil Young & Crazy Horse reveal _Psychedelic Pill_ artwork, tracklist](http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/09/neil-young-crazy-horse-reveal-psychedelic-pill-artwork-tracklist/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7121305/bob-dylan-creates-a-perfect-storm-on-tempest/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7121305/bob-dylan-creates-a-perfect-storm-on-tempest/"},"headline":"Bob Dylan Creates a Perfect Storm on 'Tempest'","datePublished":"2012-09-12T14:45:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T05:58:30.822Z","description":"This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. “Well,...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7121305/bob-dylan-creates-a-perfect-storm-on-tempest/","keywords":["review","Album"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8c7254d6c7b7e93/698a8fa1c9e94132571232ef/bobdylan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8c7254d6c7b7e93/698a8fa1c9e94132571232ef/bobdylan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bob Dylan Tempest","caption":"","creditText":"Amazon","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7121305/bob-dylan-creates-a-perfect-storm-on-tempest/","name":"Bob Dylan Creates a Perfect Storm on 'Tempest'"}}]}] ```