Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
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Artist: Leonard CohenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- In My Secret Life
- A Thousand Kisses Deep
- That Don't Make It Junk
- Here It Is
- Love Itself
- By The Rivers Dark
- Alexandra Leaving
- You Have Loved Enough
- Boogie Street
- The Land Of Plenty
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Free Music Review: GRACEFUL and SUBDUED
Hit: 5 Stars
The 2001 album Ten New Songs is quite subdued and at first listen all the songs have the same slow gentle sound. But the old magic's still there on classics like In My Secret Life, Love Itself, The Land of Plenty and the elegant Alexandra Leaving.
Cohen covers familiar themes and one even recognizes lines from earlier songs, e.g. "I do what I am told," (That Don't Make It Junk), while the mood of The Land Of Plenty reminds me of Heart With No Companion from the Various Positions album, a devotional with a sentiment of complete resignation and acceptance.
By The Rivers Dark refers to Psalm 137 about remembering Zion and singing a song to the Lord by the rivers of Babylon. The most explicitly spiritual song The Land of Plenty is the highlight of the album and stirring in its melancholy and honesty: "For the Christ who has not risen/From the caverns of the heart/For the innermost decision/That we cannot but obey/For what's left of our religion/I lift my voice and pray/May the lights in the land of plenty/Shine on the truth some day".
I enjoy Cohen's unusual excursions like Death of a Ladies' Man and the esoteric Recent Songs as much as his classic acoustic style so I have no problem with the synth-pop production. I love Sharon Robinson's vocals as backing and where she duets with him on tracks like Boogie Street and the exquisite Alexandra Leaving.
For more than four decades Cohen has been constructing a magnificent body of work that stands up to serious scrutiny and the passage of time. What a pleasure then, for these ten additional songs of the same sublime artistry as his first offering of the new millennium. The follow-up, 2004's Dear Heather is even better and more varied.
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Import 180gm vinyl LP re-pressing of the singer/songwriter's 2001 album. 10 tracks.Where has Leonard Cohen been for the past nine years? The legendary songwriter's mostly been in a Zen monastery, it turns out, obsessively rewriting and polishing the oblique, lapidary lyrics for this austere collection. Ten New Songs is arguably Sharon Robinson's record as much as Cohen's--she cowrote all the songs, plays most of the instruments (primarily a synth that seems to have freshly emerged from a chintzy 1984 power ballad), and accompanies Cohen's gloomy croak with her own crooning. This is the most subdued album Cohen's ever made, which is saying something. It's as if he no longer has time for anything in music or performance that could alter the meaning and force of his words. --Douglas Wolk
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