Bittersweet, Brooding & bleak....and utterly brilliant!!!...

Review Score: (10/10)
Ultimately the title gives you a fair idea of what to expect from this title...but the delivery will certainly take you by surprise, as anyone that can sing about Santa Clause, Orgies, Blue raincoats, Betrayal..in a deceptively angst-ridden way, that at first seems like an apparently sparse & Gentle song of Love, emotion and poignant melodies, and then gradually digresses into a bitter, gloomy, brooding tale of hate, distrust, melancholy & contempt...with an unobtrusive string arrangement lending weight to Cohen's nihilistic rhetoric, that on several occasions, fools the listener into believing that somebody may have Changed the Cd, is fantastically realised, in the same way "Lou Reed" can take relatively simple subject matter, and inject it with venom & Bile, in a way few other artists can perform so charismatically.

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