Hors d'Age

Juppe had said about Sarko: "We do not change, it improves or worsens it." Leonard Cohen, he is like the quality of liquor, it improves with age.
Decades ago that I had not listened to the Canadian who made vibrate my adolescence. I find it a great pleasure, an old friend of over 30 years (thus exceeded the fateful age of breaks), such that in itself with its inspired texts ("Born in chains", "Samson in New Orleans" "A street"), its scansion singular feeling, his melodic sense, and of course that voice which rightly remark Eminian proximity to that of Tom Waits. In this cavernous voice there was much mocked, referring to excessive smoking, but actually what gate that voice is intelligence and humanity, and the whole experience of the world of this son Polish Jew haunted by metaphysics.
This disc includes some songs for a long time floating in the heads ("Almost like the blues", "Did i ever love you", "You got me singing") but all are interesting and we must acknowledge the contribution of the Patrick Leonard always creative musical ideas and judicious use of the chorus (never heavy).
But the surprise of this short but intense album is that with age, Leonard Cohen, who once experienced depression overcame his demons and find serenity and even joy ("You got me singing" is the title of the last song).
While some aging glories play youngsters but do not produce anything good musically long ago, Cohen himself, quietly renewed in faithfulness to himself. These guys may well shake and wiggle, they are dry. Cohen him almost immutable is almost eternal.
PS: All this with a little humor, Cohen does not lack whatever is said, this is free Comments inspired by a CD, no art critics.