THERE are moments in Bob Dylan's new album when a jewel-like line makes you reach for the rewind button: "It would take more than needle and thread/ Bleeding from the mouth, he's as good as dead" in Tin Angel, in which a love triangle leads to a double murder and suicide; "Your father left you, your mother too/ Even death has washed his hands of you" in Narrow Way.
The magnificent, 14-minute-long title track, based on the sinking of the Titanic, teems with arresting lines – "the watchman, he lay dreaming as the ballroom dancers twirled/ he dreamed the Titanic was sinking into the underworld" – as it chronicles in thrilling, harrowing detail the helplessness, despair and resignation on board the doomed liner. It's the equal of anything Dylan has done in the last decade.
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