Bob Dylan's new album,
Fallen Angels, is available now in CD and vinyl, released just a few
day's shy of his 75th birthday (May, 24). Showcasing his singular interpretive artistry on twelve classic American songs,
Fallen Angels is the 37
th studio album from Dylan and the first since last year's
Shadows In The Night. Produced by
Jack Frost, Dylan's unique approach to recording the songs included refining complicated arrangements for 30-piece orchestras down to those uniquely tailored for his five-piece band. The album can be found at Baker & Taylor's ordering platform for your library, school, store.
Critical response to
Fallen Angels has been enthusiastic, with rave reviews coming in from around the globe;
Randy Lewis wrote in
The Los Angeles Times, "[Dylan] immediately liberates songs from the big band/big orchestra world from which they emerged, and in which they are most frequently revisited…. [He] reaches to the blues at the core of many of these songs. Thus, they elicit the ache of romantic yearning and loss that often gets subsumed by swelling orchestral forces, background choirs or by singers who are more focused on crafting elegant vocals than finding emotional resonance. And, Entertainment Weekly's
Jim Farber opined, "Dylan alights on these words with a wry delicacy…Tellingly, he delivers these songs of love lost and cherished not with a burning passion but with the wistfulness of experience. They're memory songs now, intoned with a present sense of commitment….Standards likes these and Dylan's own songs now stand as equal American totems."
