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Album · 1979

Recent Songs

by Leonard Cohen

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
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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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