Ten New Songs

Ten New Songs
Studio album by Leonard Cohen
Released	October 9, 2001
Recorded	Late 1999–mid 2001
Genre	Folk rock
Length	52:47
Label	Columbia
Producer	Sharon Robinson
Leonard Cohen chronology
Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 (2001) Ten New Songs (2001) The Essential Leonard Cohen (2002)

Professional ratings
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Source	Rating
Allmusic
Robert Christgau	(A-)
Pitchfork Media	(8.0/10)
Rolling Stone	(favorable)

Ten New Songs is Leonard Cohen's tenth studio album, released in 2001. It was co-written and produced by Sharon Robinson. She played all the instruments except Bob Metzger's guitar on 'In My Secret Life'. The album peaked at #143 on the Billboard list, #4 in Canada (where it went platinum), #1 in Poland (where it went platinum ) and #1 in Norway.

Ten New Songs was the first Cohen album to be recorded and produced digitally, although not in a professional studio, but in Cohen's and Robinson's own home studios in Los Angeles.

Track listing

All songs were written by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson

1. "In My Secret Life" – 4:55
2. "A Thousand Kisses Deep" – 6:29
3. "That Don't Make It Junk" – 4:28
4. "Here It Is" – 4:18
5. "Love Itself" – 5:26
6. "By the Rivers Dark" – 5:20
7. "Alexandra Leaving" – 5:25
8. "You Have Loved Enough" – 5:41
9. "Boogie Street" – 6:04
10. "The Land of Plenty" – 4:35

'Alexandra Leaving' is an interpretation of the poem The God Abandons Antony by Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy; it was selected by John Cale as one of his eight songs chosen for the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs.

Cover recordings

Eric Burdon, Katie Melua and Till Brönner have recorded 'In My Secret Life'.

Luciana Souza recorded 'Here It Is' on her album The New Bossa Nova.

Jonathan Richman recorded 'Here It Is" for his 2008 album Because Her Beauty Is Raw & Wild.

Liza Lee recorded a jazz version of "A Thousand Kisses Deep" on her 2009 album "Anima" which benefits the Society for Women's Health Research. The album celebrates music written or co-written by female artist.

"A Thousand Kisses Deep" was used in the movie The Good Thief. And also in the 2010 French movie Le bruit des glaçons. It was also covered by Chris Botti in his album of the same name in 2003.

References

• discog.com entries: [1][2][3]