Triplicate
| Bob Dylan
Triplicate
Triplicate is the 38th studio album by Bob Dylan, released by Columbia Records on March 31, 2017.[1] Like Dylan's previous two studio albums, Triplicate features covers of classic American songs recorded live with his touring band and without the use of overdubs.[2] The album is Dylan's first three-disc album, featuring thirty songs across its three discs, each individually titled and presented in a thematically-arranged 10-song sequence.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
March 30, 2016. Bob Dylan’s ‘Triplicate’ exudes, celebrates a majestic darkness.
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Pitchfork
April 6, 2017. *Triplicate, *again, features Dylan singing tunes from the Great American Songbook. His voice is filled with character, though the cumulative impact of the 30-song set is somewhat dimmed.
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The Guardian
March 30, 2017. Sensitive and exquisite 30-song extravaganza With his latest album of covers, Dylan is a dependable connoisseur, whose choices illuminate his own compositions
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Ultimate Classic Rock
March 29, 2017. makes the consistently enigmatic and occasionally frustrating Dylan, for one of the few times in his career, invitingly human.
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All Music
March 31, 2017. Dylan does just that on Triplicate, finding the heart beating within some old warhorses and placing them within several great American musical traditions.
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Paste Magazine
March 29, 2017. Triplicate allows us to experience the rare and intimate pleasure of listening to an artist connect with, and express the subtle and infinite joys suggested by a great song.
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AV Club Music
March 31, 2017. the experience of listening to Triplicate is like turning a radio dial in the middle of the night and landing on a station so clean, clear, and resounding that it could be originating from the receiver itself.
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All About Jazz
June 24, 2017. Whether or not profound meaning arises from a listening to Triplicate in its entirety or through choosing specific selections is in the ears of the beholder, but also in the hearts and minds of the listener(s), Bob Dylan aficionado or not.
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Spill Magazine
Dylan sings his heart out and his voice is in fine form, as good as anything he has produced.
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Slant Magazine
April 6, 2017. Rather, he’s really singing, to the extent that he’s still capable. His delivery is tender and delicate,
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Spin
March 31, 2017. his insuppressible spirit is baked into every moonstruck moment.
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Drowned In Sound
March 31, 2017. his covering of traditional pop standards is innovative in its own fashion.
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Los Angeles Times
March 22, 2017. the world is undeniably richer for his guided tour through the trove of songs that helped lay the foundation for American music.
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Pretty Much Amazing
April 5, 2017. It's good, in the worst possible way. . . . this is a lot of music, even for a prolific folk artist, and Bob Dylan never does anything by mistake. It's all a calculated play.
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Naitonal Public Radio
March 23, 2017. . . . Dylan's band hums with a serene authority, never overloading the music with showmanship.
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Newsday
March 29, 2017. his skill as a singer is often overlooked because his voice is not conventionally pleasing. It is, however, increasingly poignant
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No Depression
April 15, 2017. ”He favors emotional impact over perfection and makes you hear every familiar line in a fresh way.
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Irish Examiner
March 25, 2017. Triplicate is a triple decker of fun. A twinkle of wry humour hangs around the entire project and that is probably the context in which it is best enjoyed.
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The Line Of Best Fit
April 19, 2017. Dylan’s triple album of vintage songs for swingin’ ex-lovers proves too much of a good thing.
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The Young Folks
April 10, 2017. it’s a lovely, lyrical not-so-little collection, one that finds bliss in tangled humanity.
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Exclaim!
April 7, 2017. Bob Dylan's sprawling new album of standards reaffirms his mastery as an arranger and vocalist.
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Evening Standard
March 31, 2017. ‘Some achingly lovely moments’. Interestingly, for a man renowned for reworking his own songs to the point of obscurity, he handles this collection with cotton-gloved care.
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Now Toronto
March 27, 2017. The folk rock legend takes on more classic American songs, a little more obscure this time around and perfectly executed.
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Blues Magazine
April 26, 2017. This is a different Dylan……once again.
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Esquire
March 31, 2017. Bob Dylan's Triplicate proves he's as good at interpreting the classics as he is at writing them.
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Gold Derby
March 31, 2017. Latest album of Frank Sinatra covers is ‘majestic in its own right’.
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itunes Apple Music
Dylan swings along with these showstoppers, his touring band firmly in the pocket.
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RTE
April 13, 2017. you get to hear fine examples of the the dying art of elegant lyric-writing, a fair representation of the original melodic integrity, and it has to be said, he does `transfigure' ballads like Here's that Rainy Day and There's A Flaw in My Flue.
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Cryptic Rock
April 5, 2017. All are of a droning nature, but in the context of blasting directly back to the era in time in question, the mission is a full success.
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Vinyl Chapters
April 3, 2017. It’s his best album out of his three Sinatra albums, and I truly wouldn’t mind if there was a fourth if this record is anything to go by.
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Mr. Teeth Reviews
June 5, 2017. , many would agree it’s somewhat unique albeit unconventional. This collection of recordings however sound like a man reading the lyrics for the first time, directly from the song sheets.
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The E.D. Blog
July 31, 2017. by the time you get halfway through the album, it’s a little difficult to keep pressing forward. It certainly became tedious for me.
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Financial Times
March 31, 2017. The arrangements are impeccable, with horns adding extra atmosphere to a number of the songs, brooding in the background of an otherwise breezy “Stormy Weather”. . . .
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Contact Music
April 1, 2017. Triplicate’ is, in the main, as tired as it is tiresome. Imagine your grandfather singing along to a slow ballad while drowsy. That is what Dylan sounds like for most of this set.
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13th Floor
April 13, 2017. Thirty Eight albums in and a lifetime of songwriting he chooses to continue his exploration of the great American songbook with this overlong instalment. An edited single disc or maybe even a double but a triple?
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Spectrum Culture
March 31, 2017. The elder Dylan now has the voice he always wanted when he was young; all the better to sell the life lived in old blues and folk songs. But as an interpreter of standards, he doesn’t always have the conviction even to sustain a single line; you can hear him lose interest in that opening track . . . .
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The Telegraph
March 30, 2017. should you linger a while, something wonderful might happen. Seduced by the sensitive playing of Dylan’s stripped back Americana group, in arrangements peeling away big band clichés, you may find yourself drawn into Dylan’s peculiar rhythm, surrendering to the delicate mood, and really hearing these gorgeous old songs anew.
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Ronan Conroy
October 23, 2018. In my view, the band is tight around him, his singing is not bad, and I’m sure these are great classics. Yet this triple album is not going to light my world on fire.
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Los Angeles Review of Books
June 17, 2018. On Triplicate (and its two predecessors, Shadows in the Night and Fallen Angels), Dylan steals back, without so much as winking, the Greatest Generation’s catalog for a rock ’n’ roll audience.
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Nincrony Reviews
April 6, 2017. While Triplicate is far from my favourite Dylan album, it is essential if you want to uncover a period of time before the musical upheaval of the 1960s, when the emphasis was on the words and the voice. And I feel I will be dipping back into its library for a long time to come.
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The Fire Note
May 15, 2017. Given what Dylan has to work with, he does a valiant job with the phrasing and all, . . . but still… this is not a voice you’d normally seek out apart from his 35 previous albums, where by and large, his appeal as a songwriter outshined his skill as a singer.
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Consequence Of Sound
March 23, 2017. The expansive new record sees the Nobel laureate covering 30 American standards by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Harold Hupfield, and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh. All three discs of Triplicate were self-produced by Dylan (credited as alias Jack Frost) and “presented in a thematically-arranged 10-song sequence,” according to a press release.
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Glide Magazine
January 31, 2017. Triplicate showcases Dylan’s unique and much-lauded talents as a vocalist, arranger and bandleader on 30 compositions by some of music’s most lauded and influential songwriters.
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Elsewhere
April 3, 2017. This trilogy of albums finds Bob Dylan exploring elegantly crafted songs and frequently insightful lyrics which contain often simple but universal truths about love, loss and life.
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The Current
September 11, 2017. is opening up through his song choice and phrasing, rather than through songwriting.
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The Brown Daily Herald
April 5, 2017. Instead, the “Triplicate” listener encounters a new sober, sentimental Dylan with a certain well-deserved gravity. And it’s this heaviness, this entire lifetime, that, layered over “Nashville Skyline” and “Blonde on Blonde,” accomplishes something entirely new in its severe honesty.
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a Word or Two
April 5, 2017. Back to Triplicate – while I can enjoy the music , I remain unable to embrace the whole set. I suspect with time it will be an album I play part of them on occasions.
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Metal 1 Info
March 31, 2017. BOB DYLAN adds another harmonious, impressive and surprisingly entertaining album with "Triplicate" to his probably unique career.
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First Post
April 2, 2017. it is conjunct to the artist.
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Cutting Edge
April 23, 2017. The musicians operate here as a good chef: in the lee, with an eye for the ingredients.
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Star Tribune
May 30, 2017. With the release of his first-ever three-disc collection, the greatest songwriter of the rock era reinforces his love of standards, the songs of a previous era.
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HUMO
March 24, 2017. The most remarkable thing about this new and lavish grasp from the rich American Songbook is that the man who is always told that he can not sing here sings so beautifully.
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T. Morgan Online
TRIPLICATE is not without merit. Several tracks like “I Could Have Told You”, “Somewhere Along the Way” and “Why was I born” work. What falls short are the big arrangement songs with horns, etc.
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de Voklskrant
March 30, 2017. . . . Bob Dylan just sings beautifully on Triplicate. His versions of These Foolish Things, The Best and Yet to Come and Stormy Weather are wonderful.
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Musik
March 31, 2017. The engagement and care of the music makes "Triplicate" work better than expected, and this is probably the most successful part of the trilogy.
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Slate
March 30, 2017. I think it’s gorgeous: better than Angels, not quite as good song-for-song as Shadows, but a more luxurious immersion, with more left-field song choices and a subtle thematic arc.
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The Michigan Daily
April 7, 2017. Triplicate is overall thoughtfully put together, and worth a listen for anybody interested in hearing Dylan’s take on these songs.
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Music Server
April 14, 2017. . . . "Triplicate" - it is a nostalgic and sentimental album (well thought out) but also a burst of surreal joy from mere play, which is not burdened by the presentation of itself as one of the twentieth century thought powers.
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Classic Rock
March 31, 2017. How Dylan brings that to life in these old song standards that emerged around the middle of the past century is a triumph. He does not hit every note, sometimes the voice breaks away? Who cares. Re-interpreting standards is like re-staging a play.
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Tom Tom Rock
April 3, 2017. This Triplicate is, better to say right away, a very nice job, well executed, recorded even better than the previous two and, above all, sung very well.
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Pear Shaped
March 31, 2017. Triplicate is not very good… and you already knew that – you just came to see what I’d say about it. The answer is much the same as last time. I’m not asking for a lot. I don’t want Blood on the Tracks – Part 2 or anything. The past is in the past, and that’s firmly where it belongs.
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Kirkville
April 1, 2017. The sound is perfectly balanced, and Dylan fits his voice faultlessly with the backing musicians.
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Magnet Magazine
May 9, 2017. he’s all over the phrasing but never sloppily and always expressively—allows us to hear the strangeness in them, the obsessive love, the painful longing, all over again.
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The Village Voice
April 19, 2017. What you hear is much lighter than any carefully crafted catchphrase
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Rock The Best Music
January 4, 2017. Much of the musical arrangements lack any innovation
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San Francisco Chronicle
April 12, 2017. What many initially thought was a farce with 2015’s “Shadows in the Night” manifests into a deeply passionate, endearing — if not always elegant — undertaking.
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The Daily Free Press
December 27, 2018. the way he delivers the sound overshadows the struggle and gets right to the heart of the song’s meaning.
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Journal Star
April 7, 2017. he effectively captures the melodies and his vocal style and the arrangements express the feelings of the songs, making, for example, “Stormy Monday” dark and spooky.
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