Leonard Cohen - Recent Songs
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Free Music Review: An oddity in a marvelous canon
Hit: 3 Stars
Being a transitional album, it's hard to view this in terms of Cohen's previous or future work. The songwriting remains strong, although stylistically there appears to be a lack of continuity. "Un Canadien Errant" is the very first French spaghetti western placed on a record anywhere. "The Guests" points to the density he would explore on future albums. "Ballad of the Absent Mare" is very much like his past catalogue, as is "The Gypsy Wife" and "The Smokey Life". For fans only.Free Music Review: Sublime and fragile beauty
Hit: 5 Stars
The sound is fragile, almost ethereal, on tracks like The Window, The Guests and Our Lady of Solitude, while Humbled In Love is more earthy and The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien Errant) has a traditional mariachi arrangement with marvelous trumpets. Most outstanding feature is the presence of John Bilezikjian on guitar and Raffi Hakopian on "oud" (oriental lute).
None of these songs has been covered on the brilliant I'm Your Fan tribute, perhaps because they're not as instantly hummable as his well-known classics. Jennifer Warnes, however, does a respectable version of Came So Far For Beauty on her exquisite Famous Blue Raincoat tribute album.
My favourite track on Recent Songs is The Window, an esoteric excursion aglow with symbolism in which Cohen refers to inter alia the 14th century English mystical text The Cloud Of Unknowing. If you like the music of for example Jane Siberry, Nick Drake and Belle & Sebastian, you'll love this album.
Free Music Review: recent songs
Hit: 4 Stars
very enjoyable album .leonard cohen is in good musical form on this album.it is well worth a listen,great lyrics ,great songs.up there with bob dylan the great.Free Music Review: Simply Beautiful...
Hit: 5 Stars
More melodic than some of his other works. Lots of strings on this one but they are a nice touch (not overpowering). Even though Jennifer Warnes is not my favorite of his backup singers, she does a wonderful job with complimenting Cohen's voice.Free Music Review: Not to be missed!
Hit: 5 Stars
My favourite Leonard Cohen album of all time is "Songs of Love and Hate". And it wasn't until I heard "Recent Songs" that I found an album that matched "SOL+H"'s lyrical and musical beauty. After his ridiculous collaboration with Phil Spector - "Death of A Ladies Man" - , "Recent Songs" was a wonderfully welcome return to form. Among my favourites songs on this album are "The Window" - a beautiful song in the tradition of "Last Year's Man"; "Un Canadien Errant", sung entirely in French by the Montreal born Cohen; "The Guests", "The Gypsy's Wife", and "Ballad of the Absent Mare".
This is a must-own for any Leonard Cohen fan. And it should also be pointed out that this is the last album Leonard Cohen recorded before his voice transformed into the gravely sound which has been his trademark since "Various Positions".