Dylan on his dark new album, ‘Tempest’

Bob Dylan describes “Tempest,” his 35th studio album (out September 11th), as a record where “anything goes and you just gotta believe it will make sense.” But it isn’t the record he set out to make. “I wanted to make something more religious,” he says. “I just didn’t have enough [religious songs]. Intentionally, specifically religious songs is what I wanted to do. That takes a lot more concentration to pull that off 10 times with the same thread — than it does with a record like I ended up with.”