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Leonard Cohen's latest, 'Old Ideas,' takes the singer back to one good old idea: Melody
Now we have a new batch of songs on Old Ideas, out this week. Whatever their provenance, mystical or mundane, what constitutes a good song for Leonard Cohen, at age 77, with his history? There's no explicit sense in the songs themselves of why this is a collection of "old ideas" (though the phrase itself is an old idea: it was the working title for the album before it), other than containing "ideas" from someone who is "old." But while very much in line with the Leonard Cohen Sound we've come to expect in the 21st Century, these songs contain some interesting echoes of a far more musical Cohen, one we haven't heard in a while. More
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