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Leonard Cohen, 'Old Ideas'

Old Ideas" is Leonard Cohen's first album of new material since declaring bankruptcy in 2005 due to his ex-manager's alleged embezzlement, which led to his most active touring itinerary in ages to get back in the black.

Spiritual vibe apparent in Leonard Cohen's 'Old Ideas'

Cohen doesn't abandon those themes on his latest album, Old Ideas, his first studio recording in eight years and perhaps one of his best in decades. Part of the reason the record succeeds is the honesty that the 77-year singer-songwriter delivers as he questions mortality, god and betrayal with poetic dignity.

Leonard Cohen Old Ideas

Old Ideas isn't a morbid record; for Cohen, misery and ecstasy have always been equally vital byproducts of a life lived to the fullest. Fittingly, the album is all warmth, putting Cohen's improbably expressive smoker's purr in the middle of simple yet sumptuous instrumentation, like the beautiful flamenco guitar that echoes through "Crazy To Love You," or the stately gospel piano that lifts "Show Me The Place."

The Canadian ladies' man returns with a first studio album in seven years.

When Leonard Cohen astonished his fans by deigning to visit the UK for a brace of shows in the summer of 2008, at least in London the loudest cheer of a night almost idolatrous in its appreciation came with the delivery of two lines from Tower of Song.

Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas - review

If long-term music fandom teaches you anything, it is that the value of your investments can go down as well as up. Your idols can develop feet of clay and ears of cloth. And then there's idols like Leonard Cohen.

Album Review: Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

To call Leonard Cohen a living legend would be to define the term. The man has a shadow that stretches across over 40 years of music history, his immaculately written lyrics providing inspiration for countless musicians. Yet here he is, 44 years after the intensely powerful Songs of Leonard Cohen, delivering material that matches the depth and power of that first solo record, covering the same tropes of mortality, sexuality, and religion, while remaining as vibrant and striking a poet as ever.