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Track Listings
| 1. In My Secret Life |
| 2. A Thousand Kisses Deep |
| 3. That Don't Make It Junk |
| 4. Here It Is |
| 5. Love Itself |
| 6. By The Rivers Dark |
| 7. Alexandra Leaving |
| 8. You Have Loved Enough |
| 9. Boogie Street |
| 10. The Land Of Plenty |
Product Description
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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
Amazon.ca
À 67 ans, Leonard Cohen, figure totémique de la chanson pop rock moderne, signe un quinzième album réalisé en étroite collaboration avec Sharon Robinson. Dans Ten New Songs, plus discret que The Future (1992) dans lequel l’auteur de "Suzanne" s’appliquait à décrire la furie qui secoue le monde à l’aube du XXIe siècle, le barde montréalais à la voix plaintive a remisé ses accents prophétiques pour s’attarder davantage à ce qui se passe derrière les portes secrètes de l’âme, à "mille baisers de profondeur" – "A Thousand Kisses Deep" est le titre de la deuxième chanson. On peut y trouver ce que l’on cherche : la paix, l’espoir et même un peu de réconfort. Mais Ten New Songs est aussi un appel à la résistance ("When hatred with his package comes/You forbid delivery") et un formidable bouquet de couplets, à la fois lucides et sereins, humbles et profondément humains. --Hélène de Billy
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful Poetry, Sacred Music.,
By Michael Padgett (Tacoma, Wa USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ten New Songs (Audio CD)
Leonard Cohen has again and again written poetry that is timeless, powerful, deeply and intensely profound and most especially poetry that invites the listener into a shared journey of spiritual depths and simple joys.Profoundly wrapped in paradox, Mr. Cohen's sculptured poems range from the profane to the sacred in his "secret life" and his "rivers running dark." Each song is worth the price of admission. Each song is its own journey into longing and love; warmth and loneliness, into mystic musings of Zen, the Kabbala and Contemplation. Whether it is "A Thousand Kisses Deep," or that "You Have Loved Enough," there is a song for each and every hearer. Yes, simply stated "Ten New Songs."
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
His best,
This review is from: Ten New Songs (Audio CD)
This album is surprisingly good. If fact, its better than anything Leonard Cohen did in his so called hey-day. Strange but his voice is actulaly more appealing to me now than in the 60s when he sounded like Bob Dylan, only not as good.The songs are different. Its not folk anymore, its much closer to RnB, but its still great. Very atmospheric and slow. All the songs are good, not one stinker in the whole album.
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Ten New Songs rates more than 10 stars.,
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This review is from: Ten New Songs (Audio CD)
I loved the songs on this cd the minute I heard it. Is it possible to fall in love with a cd?
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