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Leonard Cohen -
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
(Canada, 1974, singer-songwriter / contemporary folk)
It took me a while to get into Cohen because he demands a close listen to his lyrics, but if you give him that time, you’ll not be disappointed. He’s got a lot of raw, confessional—sometimes rather embarrassing to hear—stories, and so many of his songs revolve around how he just can’t get the whole love thing right. Love, for him, is a battlefield.