{"id":22153,"date":"2014-09-01T11:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=22153"},"modified":"2014-09-01T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T21:17:48","slug":"listen-to-leonard-cohen-poetically-preaching-on-new-song-almost-like-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-09\/listen-to-leonard-cohen-poetically-preaching-on-new-song-almost-like-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen To Leonard Cohen Poetically Preaching on New Song “Almost Like the Blues”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A highway of ink and a constellation of pixels have justly been spilled<\/strong><\/a> on the songwriting of Leonard Cohen<\/strong><\/a>. We’ve been transfixed by Cohen’s<\/strong> songs since we first set our ears on his debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen<\/strong><\/em> (released in 1967).\u00a0 We don’t have the time or the energy to do Cohen’s<\/strong> songs justice right now (for example, he long-ago wrote one of the greatest songs of our lives–Hallelujah<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n

Instead will give you the official lyric video for the first song released from the 80 year-old’s imminent new album Popular Problems. <\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>We confess we were somewhat skeptical when we first heard of the upcoming album, but listen below on Almost Like The Blues<\/strong><\/em> as Cohen paints a restrained masterpiece that tells of the horrors and redemption of modern man, with piano, horn and bongo-accompanied jazz-inflections.\u00a0 With\u00a0Boko Haram<\/strong>, Syria<\/strong> and Richard Dawkins<\/strong> shadings, it’s almost like the blues.\u00a0 We can’t wait for the new album.\u00a0 Long live Leonard!<\/p>\n