Old Ideas
- Leonard Cohen
- Band Name: Leonard Cohen
- Record Label: Columbia
- Release Date: Jan 31, 2012
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Feb 6, 2012100Leonard Cohen has made the best full album of his career (song for song, sound for sound, lyrical point for point; yes, this is true) and most certainly the best album of 2012.
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Jan 27, 2012100It is, in short, and as we might have expected, a work of genius.
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Feb 1, 201295In an era of hype and hyperbole where such a word has lost its meaning, Old Ideas is in the truest sense a masterpiece.
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Feb 2, 201291Give it its long chance and you'll find that Cohen's sense of humor alive and kicking from the first words.
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Feb 1, 201291Fittingly, the album is all warmth, putting Cohen's improbably expressive smoker's purr in the middle of simple yet sumptuous instrumentation.
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Jan 30, 201291The man in the suit still commands a room, telling tales of forgiveness, heaven, and alcohol. [3/10 Feb 2012, p.112]
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Jan 31, 201290The new album is a willfully modest affair, its tracks stripped to their most basic elements: a synthesized keyboard and drum machine here, an acoustic guitar or violin there, meticulously arranged female voices everywhere as a counterpoint to Cohen's own increasingly cavernous growl.
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Jan 26, 201290The lyrics on Old Ideas reach for the stark power of prayers, hymns and religious riddles.
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Jan 25, 201290With simple, delicate moments of memorable poignancy such as Banjo or Amen, he has now made a late masterpiece.
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Jan 24, 201288Still feisty after all these years, his entanglements with love and aging [are]documented with wicked wit and an attitude that is anything but sentimental.