Shadows in the night

"Adspurgt om, hvad Sinatra mon selv ville have syntes om pladen, har Dylan i forbindelse med udgivelsen udtalt: "Først og fremmest tror jeg, at han ville være forbløffet over, at jeg har indspillet de her sange med et fem-mands-band. Jeg tror, at han, på en vis måde, ville have været stolt." Mon ikke; er Shadows in the Night ikke en nøgleplade i Dylans oeuvre, er den ikke desto mindre en smuk, musikalsk gave - fra en gigant til en anden".

"It may be the most straightforwardly enjoyable album Dylan's made since Time Out of Mind. He's an unlikely candidate to join the serried ranks of rock stars tackling standards: appropriately enough, given that Frank Sinatra sang all these songs before him, he does it his way, and to dazzling effect".

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"Even with [Dylan's] long history of overt affection for pre-rock & roll pop (...), Shadows in the Night might come as a surprise. Shadows in the Night finds the songwriter (...) finding sustenance in the Great American Songbook, with every one of its songs recorded at some point by Frank Sinatra ... His voice shows gravelly signs of wear but he knows how to use his weathered instrument to its best effect, concentrating on the cadence of the lyrics and digging deep into their emotional undercurrent. In that sense, Shadows in the Night is a truer Sinatra tribute than the stacks of smiling, swinging empty tuxes snapping along to "It Had to Be You," for Dylan inhabits these songs like an actor, just like Frank did way back when".

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"It may be the most straightforwardly enjoyable album Dylan's made since Time Out of Mind. He's an unlikely candidate to join the serried ranks of rock stars tackling standards: appropriately enough, given that Frank Sinatra sang all these songs before him, he does it his way, and to dazzling effect".

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"Even with [Dylan's] long history of overt affection for pre-rock & roll pop (...), Shadows in the Night might come as a surprise. Shadows in the Night finds the songwriter (...) finding sustenance in the Great American Songbook, with every one of its songs recorded at some point by Frank Sinatra ... His voice shows gravelly signs of wear but he knows how to use his weathered instrument to its best effect, concentrating on the cadence of the lyrics and digging deep into their emotional undercurrent. In that sense, Shadows in the Night is a truer Sinatra tribute than the stacks of smiling, swinging empty tuxes snapping along to "It Had to Be You," for Dylan inhabits these songs like an actor, just like Frank did way back when".

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"På sit 36. album viser Bob Dylan nye, rørende sider af sig selv med en række overraskende vellykkede fortolkninger af Frank Sinatras sange ... »Shadows In The Night« [er] ikke Dylans mest ophidsende plade. Til gengæld er den som skabt til den ensomme ulvs sene aftenstund - solidt placeret i lænestolen med en brun spiritus i et tykbundet glas som eksistentielt dulmende sidevogn. Det er vellydende uden at kamme over, smagfuldt, og ja, faktisk overraskende rørende i sine bedste stunder. Jo, den gamle hund kan stadig nye tricks. Hvem havde lige troet det?".

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