Name: Songs Of Love and Hate
Brand: Leonard Cohen

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

88697093872

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2007-04-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Sony

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

886970938723

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

19439931851

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black

50th Anniversary Edition

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2022-03-11

194399318515

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Leonard Cohen

Genre GB

Classic

Label GB

It doesn't get darker than this. Though Leonard Cohen had already established himself as the doyen of doom with his first two albums, his third, <i>Songs of Love and Hate</i>, finds him kicking off the 1970s with the sharpest repudiation of the '60s peace-and-love / flower-power ethic the world had yet seen from the 'sensitive troubadour' corner of the music map. Though it's not really a concept album, it does feel like a guided tour through one man's battle-scarred love life. The utter emotional degradation of 'avalanche,' the suicidal frenzy of 'dress rehearsal rag,' and the bitter regret of 'last year's man' all sound like stops on the same ill-fated journey. the arrangements are wisely based around cohen's world-weary voice and hypnotic acoustic-guitar patterns, with occasional orchestrations rising like dark clouds in the background. possibly cohen's finest album, 'love and hate' would stand as a monument to explorers of the musical dark side for decades to come - such as nick cave, who memorably covered 'avalanche' - and to anyone nursing a bitter, broken heart.

Songs Of Love and Hate

Music GB