Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
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Free Music Review: minimalist masterwork...
Hit: 5 Stars
This albums sounds like it was designed expressly to play in shadowy basement rooms on ridiculously expensive hi-fi. It's just so smooth and downright *liquid* sounding. I was worried that the bare instrumentation and simple arrangements would get boring, but Sharon Robinson (who should have gotten co-credit for the album) does a brilliant job with synths, bass and background vox. It sounds haunting. The recording quality is crytsalline, really allowing the listener to enjoy every nuance. The songs are hymnlike and very reflective. There is also a certain economy to the language which makes them some of the best and tightest compositions of Cohen's long career.Free Music Review: Beautiful and Bittersweet
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the best albums of the last ten years. Beautiful, brilliant, and bittersweet; intelligent and enjoyable. Cohen finally has a hit song in his old age. I first heard "In My Secret Life" in a small Polish inn on the Polish-Ukrainian border. I didn't recognize Cohen as the singer; but I knew I had to find the singer and the hauntingly beautiful and bittersweet song. I heard the song, the next day, riding through Wroclaw on a 24 hours bus ride through Poland. As another reviewer stated, the songs do take you to other places and times. The rest of the songs are also quite good - "Alexandra Leaving" also lingers in your mind.Free Music Review: Exquisite Moving Powerful and Sweet
Hit: 5 Stars
Leonard Cohen's spiritual awakening shines through these songs just as it always has but more so ... the years have been good to his consciousness and his poetry ... as much a mystic as a poet ... there are a couple of lines worthy of Mother Kali ... some reminiscent of his forever awareness as a lover ... and many reflecting the experience of awakening ...
Love Itself is a literal account of the moment of enlightenment ... if the younger listeners don't get it that's because it lies ahead on the path ...
This album does not disappoint for music, for poetry, for the mystic's truth ...
Free Music Review: A New Listener Becomes a Convert
Hit: 5 Stars
I have never really heard a Leonard Cohen album before. The closest I've gotten is a tribute album called "Tower of Song," with covers by other admiring songwriters, such as Don Henley, Suzanne Vega, etc. After listening to this album, I can assure you I'll be seeking out other albums by Cohen. His lyrics cut to the bone, the music is moody, cool, and hypnotic. This album, from the end of his career, is probably a strange way to access a carreer, but I'll be making a backwards trip through the rest of Cohen's music very soon, I can assure you. This is one of the best albums of the year.Free Music Review: Cohen's latest songs are in tune with my mood
Hit: 5 Stars
My words are not adequate enough to describe the metaphor-rich poesy and beauty of Leonard's Cohen new record. His deep, slightly rough voice matches wonderfully with the background voice of Sharon Robinson. The songs are full of seemingly obscure truths and wisdom. To make sense out of it requires a great deal of interpretation, though this goes fully with the tradition of Cohen's artistic style. Repeated listening of his songs will only enhance the acoustic pleasure. Filled with melancholy and depressed optimism songs like "A Thousand Kisses Deep" and "Land of Plenty" stand out for me.