Bob Dylan releases another single — and announces a new double album, ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’

Bob Dylan is back. Again.

For the third time during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter has released a new single with little warning — and this time it comes accompanied by news of an upcoming full-length album.

Titled “False Prophet,� the song — a fuzzy barroom stomp that appeared Thursday night on streaming services — heralds the June 19 release of “Rough and Rowdy Ways,� Dylan’s first album of original material since 2012’s “Tempest.�

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“I ain’t no false prophet / I just said what I said / I’m just here to bring vengeance on somebody’s head,� Dylan, 78, croaks in his inimitable fashion in the single, which he teased earlier Thursday with a typically cryptic tweet showing a skeleton wearing a top hat and a caption that reads, “What are you lookin’ at — there’s nothing to see.�

“False Prophet� follows “I Contain Multitudes,� a Walt Whitman-inspired ballad that came out April 17, and late March’s “Murder Most Foul,� a nearly 17-minute meditation on the assassination of President Kennedy. On Dylan’s website, “Rough and Rowdy Ways� — the singer’s 39th studio album — is listed for preorder as a two-LP and two-CD set — a concession to the length of several of the album’s 10 tracks, as listed on Apple Music.

“Tempest� also featured an epic in the record’s title track, which recounted the sinking of the Titanic.

In the years since “Tempest,� Dylan has released three albums of material from the Great American Songbook and several archival collections, including a box set last year commemorating 1975’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour.