![]() ![]() The making of this album was protracted, painful, and in all ways alive, and the album’s dour countenance was largely the product of theater and shadow. What becomes abundantly clear over the course of the set’s six hours is that Time Out of Mind is primarily the story of a mood, and one ensemble’s single-minded pursuit of it. The remaining four discs-two of unreleased outtakes, one previously available, and a live set-repositions Time Out of Mind as a rebirth rather than a farewell. The series can feel overwhelming by design or aimed only at the highest-security-clearance Dylanologists, but Fragments presents us with a clear chronology: Disc One gives us the final studio album, remixed and scrubbed fresh so we can avail ourselves once more of its glorious shadows and submerge ourselves in its delicious mood. ![]() Fragments might be the first release that manages both. Typically, his Bootleg Series either subverts received knowledge ( Trouble No More, Another Self Portrait) or magnifies legends ( More Blood, More Tracks, The Cutting Edge). Like all of the stories surrounding the creation of Bob Dylan albums, this one bears traces of myth and marketing. ![]()
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