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BOB DYLAN
releases
“ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS”
today on
COLUMBIA RECORDS

THE ALBUM IS THE ARTIST’S
FIRST SET OF ORIGINAL SONGS IN EIGHT YEARS
AND RECEIVES MASS CRITICAL ACCLAIM UPON ITS RELEASE

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The Guardian //⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
Sydney Morning Herald // ⭑⭑⭑⭑1/2
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The Independent //⭑⭑⭑⭑
Pitchfork   9/10
Uncut   9/10
Clash   9/10

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Bob Dylan today releases ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS, the first album of original songs from the artist in eight years. The album is available in several configurations, including a 2-disc CD, a 2-LP gatefold vinyl and digital.

ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS has received phenomenal critical acclaim upon its release and follows singles ‘False Prophet’, lead-off track ‘I Contain Multitudes’ and the nearly 17-minute epic ‘Murder Most Foul’, which appears on its own separate disc in the CD album package.

Of the album, The Guardian wrote in a 5-star review, “A testament to his eternal greatness…. ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS might well be Bob Dylan’s most consistently brilliant set of songs in years: the die-hards can spend months unravelling the knottier lyrics, but you don’t need a PhD in Dylanology to appreciate its singular quality and power.”

In a 4.5-star review, the Sydney Morning Herald wrote, “ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYScontinues the gravity-defying trajectory of Dylan’s work during the past two decades to be considered among the finest albums of the creative renaissance that began with 1997’s TIME OUT OF MIND. In impeccably articulated style, sound and subject matter, it stands beside LOVE AND THEFT, MODERN TIMES and  TEMPEST in a new canon ripe for discovery in its own time, independent of past glories.”

Mojo magazine wrote in a 5-star review, “It’s not merely the novelty of new Bob songs that offers comfort in this black swan moment, it’s a set of songs that provides inspiration when it’s in short supply. Call it a vaccine against culture’s shrinking expectations and the subsequent sapping of spirit. or just call it great music….Contradiction has always lived comfortably in Bob Dylan’s work – more evidence of the vast scope of his artistic vision. What’s extraordinary is how it continues to expand, containing multitudes no one else thought of.”

Rolling Stone wrote in a 4.5-star review, “ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS is his first batch of new songs in eight years, and it’s an absolute classic—it has the bleak majesty of latter-day Dylan albums like MODERN TIMES and TEMPEST, yet it goes beyond them, tapping even deeper into cosmic American mysteries….his creative vitality remains startling—and a little frightening….But he refuses to rest on his legend. While the world keeps trying to celebrate him as an institution, pin him down, cast him in the Nobel Prize canon, embalm his past, this drifter always keeps on making his next escape. On ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS, Dylan is exploring terrain nobody else has reached before—yet he just keeps pushing on into the future.”

Pitchfork wrote in a 9/10 review, “Six decades into his career, Bob Dylan delivers a gorgeous and meticulous record. It is the rare Dylan album that asks to be understood and comes down to meet its audience… a gorgeous and meticulous record. The lyrics are striking—dense enough to inspire a curriculum, clever enough to quote like proverbs.”

The 10-track ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS is Bob Dylan’s first album of new songs since becoming the only songwriter to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016; an award bestowed upon him by the Swedish Academy “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

He has released seven studio albums within the past 23-years; a creative span that also included the recording of an Oscar – and Golden Globe-winning composition, ‘Things Have Changed’, from the film Wonder Boys, in 2001; a worldwide best-selling memoir, Chronicles Vol. 1, which spent 19 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List, in 2004 and was recently named the greatest rock memoir of all time by Rolling Stone. He is the recipient of the Officier de la Legion d’honneur in 2013, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000, a Doctorate from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and numerous other honors.

Bob Dylan has sold more than 125 million records around the world. ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS is the artist’s 39th studio album and is available now on Columbia Records through Sony Music Entertainment Australia.

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