Leonard Cohen's "Old Ideas" will be
released January 31st, 2012 on Columbia Records.
After seven years of studio silence, the master songwriter Leonard Cohen will return with a new batch of songs at the end of the month. My excitement hangs in the air like a veil (the type you'd have to draw aside to see the serpent eat its tail), as Leonard Cohen holds an eternal place in my personal pantheon of critically important musicians. To build buzz for the release (because "Leonard Cohen is releasing a new album," is, for some reason, not enough for people), there have been three tracks from the forthcoming album released. The first to hit the net was "Show Me The Place," a vocal/piano number with a slow string build and Cohen's trademark lyrical depth and raspy vocals. That was followed by "Darkness," whose swirling organ perfectly counterpoints the depth and darkness of Cohen's sound, and, most recently, a thinly-veiled battle with mortality, streaming from the New Yorker's culture desk, "Going Home." Click the link at left to listen to "Going Home," the other songs and the complete track list are after the jump.
TRACKLIST: 01 “Going Home” 02 “Amen” 03 “Show Me The Place” 04 “Darkness” 05 “Anyhow” 06 “Crazy To Love You” 07 “Come Healing” 08 “Banjo” 09 “Lullaby” 10 “Different Sides” Leonard Cohen - Darkness
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