Even non-singing-Can will be skillfully - and no one (except Tom Waits) mastered this art better than Leonard Cohen. His voice, fragile and not necessarily melody sure fits easily to his poetic texts and complicated metaphors that link to "I'm Your Man" again cover the entire bandwidth of tender melancholy ("Take This Waltz", "I'm Your Man ") to caustic sarcasm (" First We Take Manhattan "). What this album, however, apart from most other boards Cohen: The melodies are more sophisticated than usual here, the musical details worked out more clearly. The spectrum ranges from hard hitting Wave bonds in the style of the late 80s ("First We Take Manhattan", "Jazz Police") of typical Cohen ballads ("Everybody Knows") to elegiac waltz-quotes ("Take This Waltz" ). I personally like although the quiet, melancholy numbers better, but in any case: Nobody sings like Cohen Cohen! "I'm Your Man" is one of his best albums. The decision to select just this Cohen album for the series "The Vinyl Classics" is obvious. For preview I recommend: "I Can not Forget", "Take This Waltz", "Tower of Song".
