LEONARD COHEN – GOING HOME
- Author:
- Chris Peken
- Posted:
- Tuesday, 14 February 2012
We know that we have Leonard Cohen’s former accountant to thank for his touring, and perhaps also for his rejuvenated recording career too. So often mis-represented a music to slash your wrists too, Cohen’s golden tonsils really take a back seat on Going Home to his lyrical crafting and regular wry self humour – “I’d love to speak to Leonard / He’s a sportsman and a shepherd / He’s lazy bastard living in a suit”. Indeed there are chuckles a plenty here on an album that must have been made with a lot of smiling in the studio on both sides of the glass. His speak-easy style is really in cruise mode, it’s an album that enjoys having a drink in one hand and beckoning with the other. ”He wants to write a love song/An anthem of forgiving/A manual for living with defeat” – at 77 Leonard Cohen may not want to be touring and recording as he is, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t doing it as well as he ever has; women (and some men) continue to swoon in his wake, and the world is a richer place for it.
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