Fallen Angels — album cover
BOB DYLAN2016 / 37

2016 / IN FOCUS

Fallen Angels

Continuing through the American standards repertoire, the record invites attention to the way a melody is carried phrase by phrase. The voice lets age participate in the performance. This is an intimacy best heard slowly.

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Come Rain or Come Shine

Letting the years join the singing

A vow for a title, sung unhurriedly. Every turn of the melody is set down carefully, as if the promise were addressed not to this moment but to a long stretch of time. The voice does not try to erase age; it makes age the evidence of the promise.

Joined to the previous standards record, this album continues interpretation as sustained practice. It asks the listener to watch the smallest decisions: a held syllable, the placement of a breath—the art of interpretation lives there.

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Original editorial interpretation: one possible listening perspective, not a claim to the songwriter’s definitive intention.