
Album · 1979
Recent Songs
Recent Songs is a 1979 folk rock album by Leonard Cohen. It runs 10 tracks across 53 minutes on Columbia.
Folk Rock · Contemporary Folk · Folk
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- 10
- Tracks
- 53 min
- Runtime
- 131 bpm
- Tempo
- F minor
- Key
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10 tracks · 53 min
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Recent Songs is the sixth studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1979. Produced by Leonard Cohen and Henry Lewy, it was a return to Cohen's acoustic folk music after the Phil Spector experimentation of Death of a Ladies' Man, but now with many jazz and Oriental influences.
In brief
- When was Recent Songs released?
- Recent Songs was released in 1979 on Columbia.
- How many tracks are on Recent Songs?
- Recent Songs has 10 tracks, with a runtime of 53 minutes.
- What genre is Recent Songs?
- Recent Songs is catalogued under Folk Rock, Contemporary Folk, Folk.
- What BPM is Recent Songs?
- Recent Songs runs at a median tempo of 131 BPM across its tracks, most often in F minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Recent Songs?
- Listeners of Recent Songs also rate Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan, Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie.
Recent Songs at a glance
- Label
- Columbia Records
- Produced by
- Phil Spector
- Written by
- Leonard Cohen
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