Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
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Free Music Review: Some people get better as they age
Hit: 5 Stars
Leonard Cohen couldn't. When the songwriting career of a man includes the likes of 'Suzanne', 'The Stranger Song', 'I'm Your Man', 'Take This Waltz' and 'The Future' there's just no room left at the top for him to gain altitude. However, on Ten New Songs he approaches the task and comes as nearly as anyone ever is likely to in achieving it.The match pair, 'A Thousand Kisses Deep' and 'Boogie Street' are my favorites in this welcome return for Leonard Cohen. I've got an entire CD set up to play those two songs only so I can listen to them for hours. I used to do the same with 'Stranger Song', 'Take This Waltz' and others. Cohen has the touch to make the listener want that kind of experience.
Great album, Leonard. Welcome back. If you can't do anything to top this one it's okay. Just keep trying.
Free Music Review: A Clear Vision
Hit: 5 Stars
I read the reviews. I bought the CD. I was ready for something different, even if it wasn't "as good" as in the past. I was pleasantly surprised. Leonard's "new songs" aren't really that new. What's different about them is not their beauty (they excel there), its their symmetry-they express vision--a unified vision. What happens when you see things through the eyes of love? Leonard's not only seeing things differently here, he's focused on a universal love and compassion. That vision is full of hope; of course, with hope desperation also comes-nothing new there. If you like Leonard, buy this CD. If you don't like Leonard, buy this CD. As far as the production is concerned, it's all Leonard's even though credit is given to Sharon Robinson. And for her backup singing-it just makes the whole project more beautiful!Free Music Review: Breathtaking
Hit: 5 Stars
I plopped the CD into my changer and started to enjoy My Secret Life. Simply wonderful. I was listening to the other tracks, minding my own business, when the seventh track engaged. Alexandra Leaving was simply a breathtaking musical experience. Sitting in my car, listening to the track for the first time, I was instantly transported to the world of Durrell and to the poetry of Cavafy. I almost drove into a ditch. This is an amazing record. Buy it. Borrow it. Steal it. But listen to it when your attention isn't diverted by anything else. I hope you will soar. I certainly did.In the larger scheme of things, waves of reasonableness can sometimes filter out from some intelligent person and give a little uplift here and there to an otherwise unbiased whole. For me, this CD was a tsunami of reasonableness...
Free Music Review: Brilliant concept and collaboration
Hit: 5 Stars
Since I don't know his earlier work I have no preconceptions. On my first listen, I find this album a refreshing combination of brilliant lyrics and excellent production. Leonard Cohen definately writes inspired lyrics, but equal credit for inspiration and musical brilliance goes to his collaborator, Sharon Robinson. Her voice and key tracks really stand out on this record. The best complement I could make is that this combination makes me imagine what it might be like if Tom Waits made a record with Oleta Adams, who some of you might remember made her stellar debut collaborating with Tears for Fears on the Seeds of Love album and then released the fantastic debut record Circle of One. I would love to hear more from Sharon Robinson, I have no doubt we will. Kudos to LC for his vision and insight as well.Free Music Review: it was worth the wait
Hit: 5 Stars
After 9 years, some of it spent in a Zen monastery, he's back !Back with an incredibly beautiful CD...smooth, slow and mellow. These songs are so quiet and understated, it's just short of listening to silence. The arrangements are simple, and done by Sharon Robinson, who also produced, programmed, and performed the music, co-wrote the songs, and who's very lovely voice is a complement to Cohen's, but kept mostly in the background, making for a perfect balance.
These are poetic and thoughtful songs to contemplate the mysteries of life by, or maybe just to sit and watch the grass grow by, which may be the same thing...it will definitely take its place up there with "I'm Your Man" as a favorite CD.
Welcome back Mr. Cohen, we missed you.