Old Ideas:
Leonard Cohen has experimented with numerous musical styles from folk to jazz to New Wave- throughout his half-century career. But he has never been as direct both lyrically and musically, as he has on his stunning new album, "Old Ideas".
The result is an instant classic like Bob Dylans "Time Out Of Mind" or Bruces, "Nebraska"- an album that both captures a moment and can stand against anything else in his career.
He opens "Old Ideas" w/ "Going Home" a brilliant piece of story telling that The New Yorker saw fit to publish as a poem. It's sung in the first person by a higher being who explains how Cohen is "a flawed but useful messenger (a sportsman and a sheppard, he's a lazy bastard in a suit") and points out how the artist isn't in control of the message.
It also sets up the album's streamline mix of folk and gospel. The melody of "Lullaby" show Cohen isn't through with innovation just yet- another way his "Old Ideas" outclass so many new ones being developed today. He's my Hero.. Yay!!
Leonard Cohen has experimented with numerous musical styles from folk to jazz to New Wave- throughout his half-century career. But he has never been as direct both lyrically and musically, as he has on his stunning new album, "Old Ideas".
The result is an instant classic like Bob Dylans "Time Out Of Mind" or Bruces, "Nebraska"- an album that both captures a moment and can stand against anything else in his career.
He opens "Old Ideas" w/ "Going Home" a brilliant piece of story telling that The New Yorker saw fit to publish as a poem. It's sung in the first person by a higher being who explains how Cohen is "a flawed but useful messenger (a sportsman and a sheppard, he's a lazy bastard in a suit") and points out how the artist isn't in control of the message.
It also sets up the album's streamline mix of folk and gospel. The melody of "Lullaby" show Cohen isn't through with innovation just yet- another way his "Old Ideas" outclass so many new ones being developed today. He's my Hero.. Yay!!
