San Francisco Chronicle review of DH
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:03 am
This one is from Marie!
SFGate.com - San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... type=music
LEONARD COHEN
As he grows older, Leonard Cohen gets slower and lower. His new album finds him working, once again, in minimalist fashion with collaborator Sharon Robinson, his creative partner on his 2001 release, "Ten New Songs." His songs are laid back in the groove further than ever, and his voice is even more impossibly basso profundo. At 70, he's still got that wink in his eye. His songcraft is elegantly and deceptively simple, no wasted motion, almost Zen in the grace and clarity of his language. The title song, for instance, is a meditation on female beauty five lines long. Other songs are longer, but his writing remains pungent and precise. Cohen, in fact, is almost more poet than songwriter, more Buddhist monk than rock star. But he burrows his writing deeply into the fabric of music and voices and sings them as only he could. --
Joel Selvin.
SFGate.com - San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... type=music
LEONARD COHEN
As he grows older, Leonard Cohen gets slower and lower. His new album finds him working, once again, in minimalist fashion with collaborator Sharon Robinson, his creative partner on his 2001 release, "Ten New Songs." His songs are laid back in the groove further than ever, and his voice is even more impossibly basso profundo. At 70, he's still got that wink in his eye. His songcraft is elegantly and deceptively simple, no wasted motion, almost Zen in the grace and clarity of his language. The title song, for instance, is a meditation on female beauty five lines long. Other songs are longer, but his writing remains pungent and precise. Cohen, in fact, is almost more poet than songwriter, more Buddhist monk than rock star. But he burrows his writing deeply into the fabric of music and voices and sings them as only he could. --
Joel Selvin.