Time Out of Mind

Time Out of Mind is a fantastic latter day Dylan album proving that not all great artists use up all of their creativity, imagination and power in their youth. Sonically murky, densely written and wearily sung, Time Out of Mind sounds like Dylan went on a three-day drinking spree and then decided to record an album of immense isolation and darkness.

The album is filled with an early rockabilly sound, but slowed down to a bluesy crawl, that would mature and go on to make Love and Theft so essential. This is a great album to listen to late at night, around two in the morning to be more specific, while you’re in a melancholy or frustrated mood. “Dirt Road Blues” sounds like it could have been plucked from the obscurities pill in the Sun Records vault, not an insult. While “Love Sick” and “Cold Iron Bounds” have an almost reggae swagger to their guitar lines, but they’re played too folksy to really be a reggae song. And “Highlands” is another great epic closing sonic landscape to get lost in. At a young age Dylan tried to sound world weary, wise, bitter and forceful, and now he has become the artist he’s always envisioned himself as. Luckily for us, that hasn’t changed his near God-like abilities to write a beautiful song. DOWNLOAD: “Love Sick”