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	• Ten New Songs Leonard Cohen Sony, 2001 average customer review:based on 155 reviews view larger image
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Leonard Cohen - 10 new songs of pure musical pleasure

This had got to be one of his best work ever. Arrangements are elegant and the whole is extremely rich (which mean you can listen to it for years and still discover new nuances). A masterpiece IMO.

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Can a recording be both philosophical and sexy? The answer is yes - and "Ten New Songs" is both. I resisted getting this for a while, but, unlike many recordings that heavily rely on synthesizers, I found this one to work unbelievably well. Cohen and Sharon Robinson are a winning and surprizingly sultry combination. Her voice and accompaniment, along with the production, perfectly compliment "The Master's Song". His words are both powerful and minimal but evoke a detached enlightenment and ironic romanticism that Cohen has continued to refine over the years. His voice is like a tuning fork that immediately sets one's brain waves to deep alpha. She is the feminine counterpart to his ancient, sacred beast. This material gets better and better and reveals more with each listening. A word should also be given to the engineering and mixing - the word is "superb".

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Alcoholic melancholy at its best.

True the music is made on his computer in his LA garage studio but I loved every nuanced cigarette throat note . Nothing beats the band but Leonard is a lyrical artist with with a license to create on whatever canvas he choses. The album I have a hard time listening to is Dear Heather. I figured out that most of Leonard's creations are inspired in kind of a misty muse of purple grenache melancholy...love it.

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Ten New Songs

Great CD, My old one got stuck in my car CD exchanger and I liked it so much I bought it again. Very Sexy !

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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