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| February 25, 2002 |
Ten New Songs
Leonard Cohen
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A reserved and meditative album. If you love Leonard Cohen it's for
his lyrics, and here they are set against Sharon Robinson's musical
backdrops. When Cohen writes about love, it sends shivers down my
spine. On "In My Secret Life" he sings, "I saw you this morning/You
were moving so fast/Can't seem to loosen my grip/On the past/And I
miss you so much/There's no one in sight/And we're still making love/In
My Secret Life." He keeps that feeling of longing going on "A Thousand
Kisses Deep", accompanied by quiet strings: "Confined to sex, we
pressed against/The limits of the sea/I saw there were no oceans
left/For scavengers like me." Robinson contributes vocals to every
song on the album, and at first her synthesizer was a bit much for me.
But damn, those lyrics. From "Boogie Street": "And O my love, I still
recall/The pleasures that we knew/The rivers and the waterfall/Wherein
I bathed with you/Bewildered by your beauty there/I'd kneel to dry your
feet/By such instructions you prepare/A man for Boogie Street." Sheer
poetry.
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