Leonard Cohen: Ten New Songs

I bought this within a month or so of its release (£13.99 from Polar Bear on Ecclesall Road), probably just because I hadn't heard anything Leonard Cohen had done since The Future, and I loved that. Checking the Wikipedia records, I see he didn't release any new songs between The Future (1992) and Ten New Songs (2001), so that would be why…

I think the reviews were good, too. However, LC takes himself a much smaller, more intimate, canvas on this album than on the millenarian 'big picture' of the decade before. Nothing instrinsically wrong with that, but I find it hard to imagine listening to this the whole way through without drifting off into a short snooze, or at least a rheumy-eyed gaze into the fog of the middle distance, along the way.

Curio: Jonathan Richman's cover of Here It Is, one of the ten songs.

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