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Title: Conspiratorial Confessions
Review: When the apocalypse finally comes, it won't sound like bombs bursting in air or any of those hoary old cliches. It's going to sound a lot like the conspiratorial confessions of Leonard Cohen: creamy smooth whisperings that soothe and attack in equal measure. On Ten New Songs, Cohen, recently back from a monastery, contemplates birth/school/work/death with eerie calm. On his 60's work, when he was in his 30's, he sounded weary. He's beyond that now, a voice reporting from the grave. His old folk settings have been replaced by cocktail electronica. The tinkling faux-jazz and r&b lite never distract from the grit of the songs. When he talks about "cardboard and piss" on "Here It Is", you can smell it. When "Love Itself" visits him, and deserts him then in "Alexandra Leaving", you first feel the warmth of new love and then, as he describes that eternal moment of parting, you feel a chill like never before.
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