Ten New Songs

Ten New Songs Artist: Leonard Cohen
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5099751759423
ASIN: B0002W1AMS


Release Date: 2005-11-01

Ten New Songs


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Tracks:

  1. In My Secret Life
  2. 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. Land of Plenty

Similar Items:

  1. Various Positions
  2. Cohen Live
  3. Recent Songs
  4. Dear Heather
  5. I'm Your Man

Album Description

Exclusive Import coupling of his albums, 'Future' (1992) and 'New Songs' (2001). Two standard jewel cases packaged in a slip case. 19 tracks in total. Sony.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Two great albums.......2006-01-27



Ten New Songs (2001) is quite subdued and at first listen all the songs sound very similar. But the old magic's still there, on classics like In My Secret Life, Love Itself, The Land Of Plenty and the elegant Alexandra Leaving.

Cohen covers familiar terrain and one even recognizes lines from earlier songs, e.g. "I do what I am told," (That Don't Make It Junk), while the mood of The Land Of Plenty reminds me of Heart With No Companion from the Various Positions album, although with a sentiment of complete resignation and acceptance.

I enjoy Cohen's digressions like Death Of A Ladies' Man and the esoteric Recent Songs as much as his classic acoustic style so I have no problem with the synth-pop production and I love Sharon Robinson's backing vocals as they perfectly frame his voice.

The most explicitly spiritual lyric of The Land Of Plenty is also my favourite for its poignancy and honesty: "For what's left of our religion/I lift my voice and pray/May the lights in the land of plenty/Shine on the truth some day".

For more than four decades Cohen has been constructing a magnificent body of work that stands up to serious scrutiny and the passage of time. What a pleasure then, for these ten additional songs of the same sublime artistry as his first offering of the new millennium.

Then back to the 90s: Tracks on The Future (1992) range from the soulful cover of Frederick Knight's Be For Real, to the flowing, country-tinged Closing Time and the sombre Anthem with its comforting lines: "There is a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in."

Democracy is another tour de force with a lovely undulating rhythm and gripping lyrics whilst Light As The Breeze must rate as one of his most moving love songs. As Cohen's sole album of new material in the 1990's, this was a worthy follow-up to 1988's I'm Your Man and remains a masterpiece of poetry in song.

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