- folk rock
- 53 min
- 10 tracks
- Columbia
Recent Songs is the sixth studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1979. Produced by Cohen alongside Henry Lewy, it was a return to his normal acoustic folk music sound after the Phil Spector-driven experimentation of Death of a Ladies' Man, but now with many jazz and other influences.
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Character-led, spare, classical in form and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- 1The Guests6:39
- 2Humbled in Love5:15
- 3The Window5:55
- 4Came So Far for Beauty4:03
- 5The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien errant)4:41
- 6The Traitor6:15
- 7Our Lady of Solitude3:13
- 8The Gypsy’s Wife5:13
- 9The Smokey Life5:18
- 10Ballad of the Absent Mare6:22
10 tracks, 53 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Leonard Cohen
- Label
- Columbia
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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