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LP/CD Leonard Cohen: Popular Problems

180g Vinyl

Columbia | Sony Music 7. October 2014 Europe

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Leonard Cohen celebrates his 80th birthday with new album "Popular Problems" Happy Birthday, Lenny. On the day of his 80th birthday (two days before, to be exact), Leonard Cohen releases his 13th studio album, "Popular Problems," on which Patrick Leonard once again helped him with songwriting and as producer. The new album was recorded and mixed...

More ID: 28435 EAN: 0888750142917 Discogs ID: 6150357

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Title	Popular Problems
Artist	Leonard Cohen
More info	180g Vinyl
Format	LP (vinyl) CD
Labels	Columbia \| Sony Music
Country of issue	Europe
Date of publication	7. October 2014
First released	2014
Weight	315 g
EAN	0888750142917
Product ID	28435
Discogs ID	6150357
Discogs reviews	4.48

Leonard Cohen: Popular Problems version on vinyl LP/CD in Standard edition. This particular edition was published in Europe in publishing company Columbia in cooperation with Sony Music on 7. October 2014.

Leonard Cohen celebrates his 80th birthday with new album "Popular Problems" Happy Birthday, Lenny. On the day of his 80th birthday (two days before, to be exact), Leonard Cohen releases his 13th studio album, "Popular Problems," on which Patrick Leonard once again helped him with songwriting and as producer. The new album was recorded and mixed by Jesse E. Chain. As on "Old Ideas," the new CD "Popular Problems" features a sedate, summarizing Leonard Cohen who convinces with deep lyrics and imaginatively arranged, musically diverse songs. The opener "Slow", whose title says it all, sets the tone from the beginning of the album: Leonard Cohen will be slowing down ("I'm slowing down my tune ..."). Many of the songs are spoken rather than sung. Thanks to a superbly mixed recording, Cohen's voice, which gets deeper and deeper, goes straight from the ear to the heart. Leonard Cohen still has a lot to say about "Popular Problems." His ending isn't always positive; there's more of a laconic-melancholy mood running through the album, which contains nine songs. On the slow country song "You Got Me Singing," Cohen throws the singing overboard and sums it up with "Even though it all looks grim, You got me singing the Hallelujah Hymn" - an allusion to his much-overused song. He is probably very surprised that, given the world around him, so many people like to sing Hallelujah. For Leonard Cohen, music is a lifeline in a world he sees as critically as ever. With "Popular Problems" he gives himself and us a sound album that provides musical solace despite all the melancholy of the lyrics. Review: "Musically, the old master of sonic singing relies entirely on slowing down, as the first line of opener 'Slow' points out: 'I'm slowing down my melody'" (Good Times, December 2014/January 2015) "If 'Old Ideas' was a masterpiece two years ago, Cohen is even better, a crystal-clear sound that's incredibly authentic to musical effect." (Stereo Play, November 2014) "No Cohen album has ever exuded such a sense of well-being." (Stereo, December 2014) "Pure existentialism: ominous, melancholic, wannabe contemplative in musical language between blues and folk, punchy in philosophical statement: gripping deep in the listener's soul." (Audio, December 2014)

Album spans genres Pop, Folk, World, & Country and Folk Rock. 180g.

Track list

A1	Slow	3:25 min
	Backing Vocals Charlean Carmon \| Music By Patrick Leonard \| Vocals Leonard Cohen
A2	Almost Like The Blues	3:28 min
	Backing Vocals Charlean Carmon \| Music By Patrick Leonard \| Vocals Leonard Cohen
A3	Samson In New Orleans	4:39 min
	Backing Vocals Charlean Carmon, Dana Glover \| Bass Joe Ayoub \| Drums Brian MacLeod \| Keyboards Patrick Leonard \| Violin Alexandru Bublitchi \| Vocals Leonard Cohen
A4	A Street	3:33 min
	Backing Vocals Charlean Carmon, Dana Glover \| Bass Joe Ayoub \| Drums Brian MacLeod \| Keyboards Patrick Leonard \| Vocals Leonard Cohen
A5	Did I Ever Love You	4:11 min
	Backing Vocals Dana Glover \| Bass Joe Ayoub \| Drums Brian MacLeod \| Guitar James Harrah \| Keyboards Patrick Leonard \| Violin Alexandru Bublitchi \| Vocals Leonard Cohen
B1	My Oh My	3:37 min
	Backing Vocals Charlean Carmon, Dana Glover \| Music By Patrick Leonard \| Vocals Leonard Cohen
B2	Nevermind	4:40 min
	Backing Vocals Charlean Carmon, Donna De Lory \| Music By Patrick Leonard \| Vocals Leonard Cohen
B3	Born In Chains	4:56 min
	Backing Vocals Charlean Carmon, Dana Glover \| Bass Joe Ayoub \| Drums Brian MacLeod \| Keyboards Patrick Leonard \| Vocals Leonard Cohen
B4	You Got Me Singing	3:32 min
	Backing Vocals Dana Glover \| Bass Joe Ayoub \| Drums Brian MacLeod \| Guitar James Harrah \| Keyboards Patrick Leonard \| Violin Alexandru Bublitchi \| Vocals Leonard Cohen
CD-1	Slow	3:25 min
CD-2	Almost Like The Blues	3:28 min
CD-3	Samson In New Orleans	4:39 min
CD-4	A Street	3:33 min
CD-5	Did I Ever Love You	4:11 min
CD-6	My Oh My	3:37 min
CD-7	Nevermind	4:40 min
CD-8	Born In Chains	4:56 min
CD-9	You Got Me Singing	3:32 min