On Tuesday, iconic Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen confirmed full details of his upcoming album, Old Ideas, set to release January 31 in the US (and presumably January 30 in the UK).
His first release since 2004's Dear Heather, the new album contains 10 previously unreleased tracks that according to a press release will "poetically address some of the most profound quandaries of human existence -- the relationship to a transcendent being, love, sexuality, loss and death."
The album is available for preorder now on Cohen's official website, and according to a press release fans will soon be able to stream the album's first single "Show Me the Place" via the site.
While the recording of the new album began this January, early versions of the tracks "Amen" and "Lullaby" were originally recorded in 2007. Early versions of the songs "Lullaby" and "The Darkness" were also performed live during Cohen's recent sold-out world tour.
'Old Ideas' tracklisting:
1. "Going Home"
2. "Amen"
3. "Show Me the Place"
4. "The Darkness"
5. "Anyhow"
6. "Crazy to Love You"
7. "Come Healing"
8. "Banjo"
9. "Lullaby"
10. "Different Sides"
Earlier this year, Cohen won Spain's esteemed Prince Of Asturias Award for literature.
Cohen left music in the 1990s and spent years in a Buddhist monastery in California, where he became a monk and took the name Jikan, which means "silence."
Watch Cohen's clip for "First We Take Manhattan": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A&
