Bob Dylan's first album of new songs in five years will be called 'Modern Times' and released on August 28, according to an inside source at his US record company, Sony-BMG.

A number of hand-picked journalists were given a playback of the album in New York City last week but were required to sign legal undertakings not to talk about what they heard. One record company source described the album as similar in style to 2001's 'Love & Theft'. Another source claimed the dozen songs include "at least three masterpieces".

It appears unlikely that any of the new material will feature in the set-list for his imminent UK and European dates. None of the songs from 'Modern Times' were premiered on Dylan's recent US tour, which wound-up in Florida last month.

http://www.nme.com/news/bob-dylan/23307

so yeah i'm pretty excited. please merge if it has already been posted.

Ooh thanks.

do people really like anything he's done since blood on the tracks (or quite a bit before that too)?

That's exciting

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So I'm watching as his wings spread as wide as could be
Come on now and wrap them around me

i can only speak for myself, but yes.