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8.0
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The Sunday Times
Most Christmas albums are rubbish — there’s no denying that. Every now and then, though, someone makes a holiday album that’s actually worth listening to. This year, slightly surreally, it’s Bob Dylan
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8.0
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The Scotsman
Simultaneously hilarious and heart-warming, Christmas In The Heart is almost up there with Billy Idol's Christmas album as the ultimate alternative Yuletide soundtrack
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8.0
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The Guardian
Sceptics should go to YouTube and watch the Must Be Santa video clip...delivered by Dylan as a sort of punk-Dickensian Father Christmas from amid the incipient mayhem of a slightly out-of-hand Christmas Eve party
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7.0
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PopMatters
He sounds more committed, in fact, than he did on his last couple of albums. Christmas in the Heart is, in no particular order: delightful, silly, intimate in a somewhat phony way, gentle, cornball, crazy, dated, baffling and lovable
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6.8
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6.8 |
Pitchfork
Regardless of intent, Christmas in the Heart is a surreal and occasionally rousing collection of gooey holiday ballads, complete with animatronic backing vocals and Nashville-smooth arrangements
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6.0
886
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
The effect is like a Woodstock snowfall with the defiance of 1970's Self Portrait
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6.0
883
6.0 |
The Times
The effect of that increasingly coarse-grained voice getting downhome and jaunty over the canter-speed sleigh bells of, say, Winter Wonderland can be as funny as it is affecting
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6.0
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6.0 |
Observer Music Monthly
Print edition only
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5.0
6459
5.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Sure it's not that good, but there are a million and one other holiday themed albums out there that are worse than Christmas in the Heart
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5.0
885
5.0 |
The Observer
There is no doubting the genuineness with which he tackles these old roasted chestnuts... But this Christmas set swerves off into kitsch all too swiftly.
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5.0
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Drowned In Sound
It’s a charity stopgap, a novelty piece, a fun experiment. It’s Bob Dylan’s Christmas gift to you, delivered with warmth from his heart, even if his tongue is in his cheek.
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4.0
5767
4.0 |
Uncut
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4.0
887
4.0 |
The Independent
Many are the musical atrocities committed in the names of Christmas and charity; but rarely can they have been as downright weird as Christmas In The Heart
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4.0
6855
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Q
Print edition only
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3.0
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Under The Radar
Christmas In The Heart is quite an oddity, and it's probably only for Dylan completists
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