THE TELEGRAPH (UK) -- REVIEW: OLD IDEAS

Lush female harmonies still carry refrains and colour his monochrome tones, but they float on the organic pulse of a live band, that plays with gentle restraint, and weaves flowing violin, trumpet and harmonica melodies in among the glistening pearls of Cohen's epigrammatic phrases... Cohen's imagery throughout is elegant, thoughtful and occasionally startling. The music is perfectly matched, neither heavy nor overwrought, it glides by, easy on the ear and on the soul, but opening up to reveal looming depths. It is, in short, and as we might have expected, a work of genius. Sometimes the old ideas are the best.
-- The Telegraph (UK), January 27, 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/9041805/Leonard-Cohen...