For the title of his last song, “Murder Most Foul,” Bob Dylan borrowed from Shakespeare. For his unexpectedly rapid-fire follow-up, he’s cribbing from Walt Whitman. “I Conta…
borrowed from Shakespeare. For his unexpectedly rapid-fire follow-up, he’s cribbing from Walt Whitman. “I Contain Multitudes” takes its name from a famous parenthetical thought in Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” And true to the declaration of personal complexity, the tune itself contains a legion’s worth of thoughts and attitudes… although, at a mere four and a half minutes long, not quite as many multitudes as the 17-minute “Murder.
The two songs together represent quite a break in the drought of new material from Dylan, who hadn’t released a previously unheard song since 2012’s “Tempest” until he put out “Murder Most Foul” in a sneak attack at midnight March 27. Just three weeks later, he’s doubled the amount of fresh songs, with “I Contain Multitudes” also getting a midnight ET/9 PT surprise release with no advance warning.
Although it’s only a fourth as long as “Murder,” “Multitudes” does share some similarities with its immediate predecessor, including a drumless, rolling sound in which a scant few players, including a steel guitarist, seem to be gently improvising on a theme as they go along. It also shares a flare for bizarre juxtapositions of cultural references, although not nearly on the bounteous level of the more epic song from three weeks ago. The most likely-to-be-quoted lyrics:But the song isn’t so much of a triptych of Dylan’s record collection this time around, although there’s still a lot of cataloguing going on. It’s more like he’s thumbing through his many moods.
Dylan didn’t release any statement with this song, as he did with the March one, and whether the rumored new album is really on the way remains as much of a mystery as ever. Now, there’s reason to suspect that the man who sounded the alarm on changing times five and a half decades ago may have embraced change so much that he’s joined some of the kids in adopting a singles model.
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