Leonard Cohen And Jarvis Cocker Talk ‘Old Ideas’

Last night, at a special playback session of his new album, Leonard Cohen spoke at length with Jarvis Cocker about his new album.

‘Old Ideas’ gets released on the 30th January, but, as reported by NME, at a listening party held at the Mayfair Hotel last night, Cohen shared some secrets with the Pulp frontman.

‘I never had a strategy, I always felt I was kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel just trying to get a song together…’ the 77 year old said, in regards to his songwriting technique. ‘I never had the sense that I was standing in front of a buffet table, with a multitude of choices.’

The singer also responded to Cocker’s question of how deep his voice currently is, by saying; ‘It’s what happens when you give up cigarettes, contrary to public opinion… I thought my voice would rise a soprano… it’s not going that direction. I’ll start smoking again when I’m 80, I’m looking forward to that.’

‘Old Ideas’ is Cohen’s twelfth studio album, and his first since ‘Dear Heather’ was released back in 2004.

Yesterday, we let you listen to his new track ‘Going Home’.