He has been working on the road for more than four decades, but at the age of 77 the poetic singer / songwriter Leonard Cohen still does not think about stopping. The proof is Old Ideas, the follow-up to released in 2004. Unlike Dear Heather, there are no striking synthesizers on Old Ideas and the beautiful baritone voice of the Canadian is central again. Old Ideas has not become an album by a
… songwriter who sees its end. Cohen shows that he still has enough inspiration and proves with the song Darkness that the blues still flows through his veins. Come Healing is also beautiful, in which he is accompanied by a phenomenal background choir. The occasional whispered lyrics to Old Ideas vary from melancholic to humorous, but are also occasionally inexplicable. The master himself acknowledges this too: 'Sometimes I don't fully understand my own texts.' Nonetheless, Cohen shows that he can still come along for a while. Old Ideas is without a doubt a valuable addition to his impressive oeuvre.more
