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For the nine years prior to the release of Ten New Songs the legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen was mostly in a Zen monastery, obsessively rewriting and polishing the oblique, lapidary lyrics for this austere collection. Ten New Songs is arguably Sharon Robinson s record as much as Cohen s--she co-wrote all the songs, plays most of the instruments (primarily a synth that seems to have freshly emerged from a chintzy 1984 power ballad) and accompanies Cohen s gloomy croak with her own crooning. This is the most subdued album Cohen s ever made, which is saying something. It s as if he no longer has time for anything in music or performance that could alter the meaning and force of his words. --Douglas Wolk