The man with the Romantic seed decided that he would release some more music, unoriginally titled Ten New Songs (buy hey look at his other titles as well). First thing that struck me was how backward looking, how dated, almost, this sounds - along the same lines as I'm Your Man - mainly because of the 80s style electronic drums. Of course Cohen's music has mainly been about old style singing and once again the master of the low does not disappoint. Ten New Songs is as good a record as he has released bar Love and Hate and Songs Of, the lyrics and mood growing with every listen. His best writing and voice was always likely to be in his early musical career but his style is becoming more and more original as people gradually start to look backward. It's a night record...is there a Zen element?But hey listen to it sinking down - observe and marvel at the way Cohen spent so much time on the words...