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Ten New Songs

~ Leonard Cohen (Artist)
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  • Audio CD (8 Oct 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Columbia
  • ASIN: B00005NUXS
  • Other Editions: Mini-Disc  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,431 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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For the nine years prior to the release of Ten New Songs the legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen was mostly in a Zen monastery, 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 co-wrote 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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The tracks on this album were co-written by Cohen and his long time collaborator Sharon Robinson. The record was produced by Robinson, and engineered by Leanne Ungar who has previously worked with Cat Stevens. The recording sessions took place at two different California studios.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Songs of Age and Loss, 10 Oct 2001
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After nine years since Leonard Cohen's last studio album The Future, was Ten New Songs worth the wait? Mostly, yes. There are three songs on the album which seem destined to join other Cohen classics - the pacy opening track "In My Secret Life", the rich and haunting "A Thousand Kisses Deep" and witty, urban-centered "Boogie Street" in which Cohen seems to be saying goodbye to his years as a zen monk on a mountain outside Los Angeles and coming back into the real world of traffic jams.
Another highlight is the death-haunted "Here It Is", which unexpectedly telescopes romantic love with sickness, drunken falls, bedpans "cardboard and piss" and the thudding, powerful "By the Rivers Dark" which celebrates a life torn between the pleasures of Babylon and a nameless destructive force.
Cohen's voice is as weatherbeaten and low as you'd expect, and if anything even deeper and lower than on The Future, and is beautifully counterpointed by co-writer Sharon Robinson's delicate choruses and backing. The most exquisitely melancholy song on the whole album is surely "Alexandra Leaving". Like so much of Cohen's music this is music for lonely listeners in lonely rooms, or lonely drivers heading across a quiet landscape at dusk.
Though Ten New Songs is synthesizer-based and has many stylistic similarities to The Future the album is significantly different and is much more personal, with no political/social commentary apart from the gestures of the disappointingly weak final track "The Land of Plenty". The arrangements are more stripped down than on The Future (not always a good thing - the synthesizer drumbeat is at times oddly amateurish). But the mild blemishes don't spoil the overall effect of the album, which is one of those that grows on you with repeated listening.
Cohen's often under-rated sense of humour is much in evidence, notably in the lines "I fought against the bottle, / But I had to do it drunk". So too is his lyric genius: the line "When hatred with his package comes" reverberates with somber meaning. These are songs of age and loss, rueful but life-affirming, with a sense of toughness and endurance.
On the whole, Ten New Songs is a mellow, haunting album. It's as good as, maybe even better than, The Future, but not quite up to the dazzling standard of I'm Your Man.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Graceful and subdued, 1 Mar 2002
By Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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The 2001 album Ten New Songs is quite subdued and at first listen all the songs have the same slow gentle sound. 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 themes 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, a devotional with a sentiment of complete resignation and acceptance.

By The Rivers Dark refers to Psalm 137 about remembering Zion and singing a song to the Lord by the rivers of Babylon. The most explicitly spiritual song The Land of Plenty is the highlight of the album and stirring in its melancholy 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".

I enjoy Cohen's unusual excursions 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. I love Sharon Robinson's vocals as backing and where she duets with him on tracks like Boogie Street and the exquisite Alexandra Leaving.

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. The follow-up, 2004's Dear Heather is even better and more varied.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a long wait but worth it, 14 Oct 2001
By john.dalzell2@btinternet.com (Errol,Perthshire,Scotland) - See all my reviews
The great man has returned with more greats---the first three tracks are instantly likeable;A Thousand Kisses deep having tones of The Miracle from The Future album-----the other seven tracks take a bit of listening to;but become stronger and more meaningful with each replay--this is an album for a darkened room,tranquility, and time apart to really listen to lyrics and the voices,and savour the moments.This man always sends those shivers of delight and amazement through me--don't leave it too long til next time Mr.Cohen.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Ten new songs!
I also bought 'Ten new songs' and picked my favourite as 'In my secret life'! I simply love it. Another cannot-be-missed is 'A Thousand kisses deep'! Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Gloomy...

Not his best compilation in my opinion.A dirge- like sameness links the ten songs.Pity.....
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I like Leonard Cohen's voice and I really liked this C.D. I haven't bought him before but I would again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the effort of several listenings
This one took quite a few listenings before I began to realise the strength of some of the lyrics and the emotional power of just about every track. Read more
Published 23 months ago by J. Stranks

4.0 out of 5 stars This Review Don't Make It Junk
What I most like about this Leonard Cohen album is the fact that so many people coming fresh to the works of this great songwriter seem to love it wholeheartedly. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2007 by pikeyboy

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
This CD is brilliant - if you like Leonard Cohen, you MUST buy it ! !
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Having been sat around at home feeling ill all of today, I thought, what better time to review the Leonard Cohen album? Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars His very best album
Ten new songs is Leonard Cohen at his peak. I have in my collection hundreds and hundreds of albums by all sorts of bands and people; but if I could only save one in a fire... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Late Discovery
I have discovered Leonard Cohen at the age of 47 and I sense he is an artist who is appreciated more with life experience. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars The most literary of Cohen's albums
As well as being lyrically the most sophisticated and complete of Cohen's albums, Ten New Songs is also the most literary: e.g. Read more
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