Tempest

Pitchfork 6.8/10 For all its detours toward sadness and alienation, death is the real story on Bob Dylan's latest album, very much a record about The End. He's learned, at 71, that death doesn't necessarily come with a lesson, that sometimes it just comes.

A.V. Club A- What do you do after facing down mortality and making a grand final statement that turns out to be not so final after all? If you’re Bob Dylan in the years since his 1997 masterpiece Time Out Of Mind, you keep rolling on. On the four albums he’s released since then—factoring out the bizarre yuletide excursion Christmas…

The Line of Best Fit 8/10 Bob Dylan returns. The results are immeasurably more compelling than we have any right to expect from a 71-year old songwriting legend on his 35th album.

Rolling Stone 5/5 Check out our album review of Artist's Tempest on Rolling Stone.com.

The Observer 4/5 A growling Dylan is steeped in country blues and old murder ballads on his strongest album for 11 years, writes <strong>Caspar Llewellyn Smith</strong>

Slant 4/5 On his 35th studio album, Bob Dylan declaims in the old, epic mode.

The Guardian 4/5 <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong>: Dylan's latest is angry, growling and mostly great fun. But comparing it to his best work is way&nbsp;over the top

The Irish Times 5/5 CD CHOICE : Tempest Columbia *****

Uncut 10/10 Bob Dylan’s fantastic new album opens with a train song