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by Born With The Gift Of A G » Sat Nov 23, 2019 8:35 pm
Will Hodgkinson in The Times: Friday, 22nd November 2019
ALBUM REVIEW | POP
Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance review — in his final days one thing was on his mind: sex
★★★★★
Posthumous albums are rarely a good idea, but this one is different. When Leonard Cohen was dying he recorded a handful of his lyrics with his son, Adam, who then put together a subtle musical backing with help from the Spanish laud player Javier Mas, the singers Damien Rice and Leslie Feist, and the Los Angeles polymath Beck on Jew’s harp.
Cohen intones the words in the gravelly burr of his later years, and in his final days it seems one thing was on his mind: sex. “Her thighs, they slipped away from me like schools of startled fish. Though I’ve forgotten half my life, I still remember this,” he confesses, surely with a wistful smile on his face, on The Night of Santiago; poetic smut of the highest order to leaven the ruminations on facing the final curtain elsewhere. He is greatly missed.
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