Popular Problems by Leonard Cohen

Popular Problems, Leonard Cohen's 13th studio album, came out on Columbia in September 2014, with Patrick Leonard producing. It's the middle panel of the late-life run that began with Old Ideas in 2012 and closed with You Want It Darker in 2016, a surge of records that followed years back on the road after Cohen learned that most of his money had been stolen by his own manager.

The voice is down in the cellar now, a gravel murmur over Patrick Leonard's spare, bluesy grooves, and Cohen sounds in no hurry at all, like a man who has long since stopped expecting the world to make sense and finds that funny. "Almost Like the Blues" sets the tone, sly and grim in the same breath.

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