Leonard Cohen New Skin For The Old Ceremony

Spin: "[H]e makes something fragile and true out of every confessional creep-out."
New Skin For The Old Ceremony
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Format:  Vinyl LP
item number:  9DW8
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Vinyl LP Details

  • Released: October 18, 2011
  • Originally Released: 2011
  • Label: Sundazed

Description by OLDIES.com:

Leonard Cohen's 1974 cult classic! New Skin For The Old Ceremony, unavailable on vinyl for two decades, features expanded instrumental arrangements and some of the most expressive vocal performances of the artist's career on such classic compositions as "Chelsea Hotel #2", "There Is A War" and "A Singer Must Die". Remastered from the original Columbia Records stereo masters and pressed on high-definiton vinyl, with complete original cover art.

Entertainment Reviews:

Spin - p.101
"[H]e makes something fragile and true out of every confessional creep-out."
Q - 7/96, p.133
4 Stars - Excellent - "...Cohen combines the raw, forlorn, bitter, deadpan and throwaway, moulding an atmosphere of wistful misery..."

Tracks:

  • 1.Is This What You Wanted
  • 2.Chelsea Hotel No. 2
  • 3.Lover, Lover, Lover
  • 4.Field Commander Cohen
  • 5.Why Don't You Try
  • 6.There Is a War
  • 7.Singer Must Die
  • 8.I Tried to Leave You
  • 9.Who by Fire
  • 10.Take This Longing
  • 11.Leaving Greensleeves

Product Info

  • UPC: 090771528612
  • Shipping Weight: 0.5/lbs (approx)
  • International Shipping: 2 items

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