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Title: Hold your breath . . .
Review: "Ten New Songs" seems to me to be the album LC has been put on earth to give us. I know that might sound pretentious, but how else to convey my experience of listening to songs like"Alexandra Leaving" (so deeply noble and heart-rending)and"Love Itself" (surely recounting an actual episode of transcendence, the language has the directness and mystery demanded by the ineffable).No other album has so caused me to hold my breath, figuratively and almost literally, as I quiet myself to allow the power of these whispered-sung intimacies to saturate my heart.Well, I've fallen into quite a bit of poetic reverie describing "Ten", but that's okay. My suggestion: If you areopen to art that gently but intensely touches deep emotional and metaphysical truths, or if you love Cohen or Zen, or if you conceive of yourself as on a Path, this album is--to use a cliche--a "must have".(And by the way, the melodies and arrangements are concise and wonderful)
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