Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies' Man (1977/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies' Man (1977/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies' Man (1977/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 42:50 minutes | 851 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

One of the most controversial partnerships in either man's career was inaugurated the day Leonard Cohen and Phil Spector decided to make an album together. In the course of just three weeks together, the pair had written 15 new songs, described by Spector as "some great f*ckin' music." And though the recording took somewhat longer, Death of a Ladies' Man still emerged as an album that, while it certainly lives up to Spector's billing, can also be viewed as the most challenging record of both Cohen and Spector's careers. Certainly, Cohen fans were absolutely taken aback by the widescreen wash that accompanied their idol's customary tones, and many hastened to complain about the almost unbridled sexuality and brutal voyeurism that replaced Cohen's traditionally lighter touch – as if the man who once rhymed "unmade bed" with "giving me head" was any stranger whatsoever to explicitness. It is also true that a cursory listen to the album suggests that the whole thing was simply a ragbag of crazy notions thrown into the air to see where they landed.