NEW SKIN FOR THE OLD CEREMONY | Mint (M) Mint (M)

BRAND NEW

Label: Columbia – 88985435331, Sony Music – 88985435331
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180 Gram
Country: Europe
Released: 2017
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk

TRACKLIST
A1        Is This What You Wanted    4:13
A2        Chelsea Hotel #2    3:05
A3        Lover Lover Lover    3:19
A4        Field Commander Cohen    3:59
A5        Why Don't You Try    3:51
B1        There Is A War    2:59
B2        A Singer Must Die    3:17
B3        I Tried To Leave You    2:40
B4        Who By Fire    2:33
B5        Take This Longing    4:05
B6        Leaving Greensleeves    2:38

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sony Music Entertainment
Copyright © – Sony Music Entertainment
Record Company – We Are Vinyl
Record Company – Sony Music Entertainment International Services GmbH
Mixed At – Sound Ideas Studios
Published By – Stranger Music, Inc.
Pressed By – Record Industry – 91144
Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar, Trumpet – Jeff Layton
Bass – Don Payne, John Miller (2)
Design [Cover Design] – Teresa Alfieri
Drums – Roy Markowitz
Drums, Percussion – Barry Lazarowitz
Engineer [Assisted By] – Leanne Ungar
Engineer [Engineered By] – Frank Laico, Rick Rowe
Engineer [Mixing Engineer] – Rick Rowe
Guitar – Ralph Gibson
Guitar, Jew's Harp, Vocals – Leonard Cohen
Percussion – Armen Halburian
Photography By – Sam Tata
Producer [Produced By], Arranged By – John Lissauer
Trombone [Trombones] – Gerald Chamberlain
Viola – Lewis Furey
Vocals – Emily Bindiger, Erin Dickins, Gail Kantor, Janis Ian
Woodwind [Woodwinds], Keyboards, Vocals – John Lissauer
Written-By – L. Cohen*
Originally issued as Columbia Records KC 33167, October 4, 1974.

The cover: Symbolic represantation of the coniunctio spirutuum, or the spiritual union of the male and femalse principle, from the alchemical text Rosarium philosophorum (1550), reprinted in Artis Auriferae (1563), Bibliotheca chmica curiosa (1702) and, most recently, Psychology and Alchemy by C.G. Jung (1953).

All songs by Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music, Inc. BMI

℗ 1974 Sony Music Entertainment © 1974 Sony Music Entertainment.
Made in the EU.
Barcode (Text): 8 89854 35331 5
Barcode (Scanned): 889854353315

Though it is the least acclaimed of Leonard Cohen's early albums, NEW SKIN is one of his best, easily the equal of its three predecessors. It is much more ambitious than Cohen's previous efforts in terms of songwriting, but the production is nevertheless understated and tasteful. The urgent delivery and rhythmic drive of "Lover Lover Lover" and "There is a War" makes it seem like the young David Byrne spent as much time absorbing Cohen as he did Jonathan Richman. Ever the rake, Cohen makes a sly romantic appeal to an objet d'amour on the low-key, dixieland jazz-inflected "Why Don't You Try." NEW SKIN is full of emotionally harrowing moments. On "Is This What You Wanted," Cohen is haunted by the ghost of a relationship that may not even be over yet. "A Singer Must Die" finds him taken to task by the world at large (and himself) for some imagined treason intrinsic to his chosen profession. As effective as they are, these tumultuous scenarios are wisely offset by the black humor of the aforementioned "Why Don't You Try" and the over-the-top "Leaving Greensleeves." In all, this is one of Cohen's strongest and most overlooked albums.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: POP
• RSD Date: n/a
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 10/27/2017