First listen: Leonard Cohen - Almost Like The Blues
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Version 0 of 1. Forget the elaborate live streams, festival projections, flying blimps and deep web treasure hunts - Leonard Cohen breaks his urgent news via pamphlet. A few weeks ago, rumours of a new Leonard Cohen album began when the programme for the recent Leonard Cohen Event - a fan-run festival held in Ireland - announced his return modestly within its contents section. It turns out this news came straight from the man himself, and it has now been confirmed that album Popular Problems, Cohen’s thirteenth studio album, will be released on 22 September. In collaboration with co-writer Patrick Leonard, the album is released a day after he turns 80. It’s said to venture into the “avenues of our dreams” and “sets a new tone and speed of hope and despair, grief and joy,” according to a statement from the singer. “Cohen here is an astonished lover rocking to the human condition as ‘the soul unfolds in the chambers of its longing.’” The album is available to pre-order now and fans who purchase it digitally will received his new song, Almost Like the Blues, which you can hear below. Featuring that unmistakable basso which resonates through each word of his doomish poetry - “I saw some people starving, there was murder there was rape, their villages were burning, they were trying to escape” - listen to the song now and let us know what you make of his return. Popular Problems Tracklisting: 1. Slow 2. Almost Like The Blues 3. Samson In New Orleans 4. A Street 5. Did I Ever Love You 6. My Oh My 7. Nevermind 8. Born In Chains 9. You Got Me Singing |