{"id":4970,"date":"2012-02-17T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2012-02-17T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:35:11","slug":"leonard-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/leonard-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"LEONARD COHEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4971\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/LEONARD-COHEN-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/LEONARD-COHEN-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/LEONARD-COHEN-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>L<\/strong><strong>EONARD COHEN<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Old Ideas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Columbia]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0It\u2019s a funny thing to say about a septuagenarian, but Leonard Cohen has really grown into his voice. What was always a distinctive instrument has deepened on his new album into a resonant purr capable of insinuating itself into the deepest part of you. <em>Old Ideas <\/em>is only the 12th studio album in a musical career stretching back to 1967, but Cohen chooses his words with considerable care. He\u2019s become more playful over the years, finding a joyous balance between the spiritual and sensual. He blends them to staggering effect on the achingly soulful \u201cShow Me the Place,\u201d while \u201cCrazy to Love You\u201d could describe the lengths of his devotion to a lover or a divinity equally. Cohen turns wry on opener \u201cGoing Home,\u201d and plays the grizzled foil to crystalline female vocals on \u201cCome Healing.\u201d The arrangements throughout complement Cohen\u2019s voice with elegant combinations of spare piano, guitar and hushed strings. Old ideas? Maybe, but they sound as good as new. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEONARD COHEN Old Ideas [Columbia] \u00a0It\u2019s a funny thing to say about a septuagenarian, but Leonard Cohen has really grown into his voice. What was always a distinctive instrument has deepened on his new album into a resonant purr capable of insinuating itself into the deepest part of you. Old Ideas is only the 12th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,389,3032,3117,3118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}