With its release – next Monday, September 22 – nearing, Leonard Cohen’s new album, Popular Problems, is now streaming in full over at NPR – listen here. As The Guardian point out, the album is the work of Cohen collaborating with his co-songwriter Patrick Leonard on eight of the record’s nine songs, with the Cohen-only ‘Born In Chains’ the sole moment he remains less sure of: "I’ve rewritten it many times to accommodate a change in my theological position."
Stay tuned for a Len-themed feature on the Quietus in the near future.
