Ten New Songs

Infobox Album
Name = Ten New Songs
Type = studio
Artist = Leonard Cohen


Released = October 9, 2001
Recorded = Late 1999–mid 2001
Genre = Rock
Length = 52:47
Label = Columbia
Producer = Sharon Robinson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:suk0ikvabb69 link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/leonardcohen/albums/album/109043/review/5942589/ten_new_songs link]
*Pitchfork Media (8.0/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16239-leonard-cohen-ten-new-songs link]
Last album = ""
(2001)
This album = "Ten New Songs"
(2001)
Next album = "The Essential Leonard Cohen"
(2002)

"Ten New Songs" is Leonard Cohen's tenth studio album, released in 2001. It was co-written and produced by Sharon Robinson. She played all the instruments except Bob Metzger's guitar on 'In My Secret Life'. The album peaked at #143 on the Billboard list, #4 in Canada (where it went platinum), and #1 in Norway.

"Ten New Songs" was the first Cohen album to be recorded and produced digitally, although not in a professional studio, but in Cohen's and Robinson's own home studios in Los Angeles.

Track listing

All songs were written by Cohen and Robinson.

#"In My Secret Life" – 4:55
#"A Thousand Kisses Deep" – 6:29
#"That Don't Make It Junk" – 4:28
#"Here It Is" – 4:18
#"Love Itself" – 5:26
#"By the Rivers Dark" – 5:20
#"Alexandra Leaving" – 5:25
#"You Have Loved Enough" – 5:41
#"Boogie Street" – 6:04
#"The Land of Plenty" – 4:35

The song 'Boogie Street' is discussed in the Wikipedia entry for Bugis Street. 'Alexandra Leaving' is an interpretation of the poem The God Abandons Antony by Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy, it was selected by John Cale as one of his ten songs chosen for the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20040222.shtml Desert Island Discs - John Cale page] .

Cover recordings

Both Eric Burdon and Katie Melua have recorded 'In My Secret Life'.

Luciana Souza recorded 'Here It Is' on her album "The New Bossa Nova."

Jonathan Richman recorded 'Here It Is" for his 2008 album "Because Her Beauty Is Raw & Wild."

References

*discog.com entries: [http://www.discogs.com/release/414356] [http://www.discogs.com/release/378458] [http://www.discogs.com/release/490009]