Songs of Love and Hate stayed the course. Over fluttering Spanish
link guitar, 36-year-old Cohen hangs his head in self-recrimination and psychic pain, details shuddering loneliness and the grotesquery of human performance. His vocal offering comes, as ever, via his gravelly baritone, often cased in reverb as if he's singing from afar – the biblical mountains of
link Ararat, perhaps,
link or the center of the Earth.
