 September saw the release of the new Lanois @-@ produced album , Time Out of Mind . With its bitter assessment of love and <unk> <unk> , Dylan 's first collection of original songs in seven years was highly acclaimed . One critic wrote : " the songs themselves are uniformly powerful , adding up to Dylan 's best overall collection in years . " This collection of complex songs won him his first solo " Album of the Year " Grammy Award . 
