There are enough knowing and detailed reviews out there for me to defer. My core observation is that this is a mesmerising listen, what Dylan has called his 'trance' music, and it is in the incantation-drive of the rolling and/or pulsing musical lines, sometimes quite sweetly melodic, accompanied by the rhythm of the poetry, those rhyming couplets that shout their simple chimes before arrival and how this tugs us to them. The voice too, gravitas over gravel - the latter an annoyance around for quite awhile - but here the perfect trance-voice to convey the emotive, even over meaning if the lyric isn't immediately absorbed. For those of my generation, the references/touchstones are echos as much as anything else, and this pulls us in as well.
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