Leonard Cohen: Cohen Live
Andy Gill, MOJO, August 1994
LEONARD COHEN'S LITTLE NICHE IN THE marketplace has expanded somewhat over the last decade and mercifully so. Being the bedsit prophet of gloom is all very well in one's youth, but the late-starting Cohen was already getting on a bit (34) when he released his first album, and to propound unregenerate pessimism even into one's sixties would be to understate the infinite variety of life's experience a touch too cynically.
Total word count of piece: 622