| New Skin for the Old Ceremony | ||||
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| Released | August 30, 1974[1] | |||
| Recorded | February 1974 | |||
| Studio | Sound Ideas Studio, New York | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 37:11 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Robert Christgau | A−[3] |
| Rolling Stone | (mixed)[4] |
| Uncut | [5] |
New Skin for the Old Ceremony, released in 1974, is the fourth studio album by Leonard Cohen. On this album, he begins to evolve away from the rawer sound of his earlier albums, with violas, mandolins, banjos, guitars, percussion and other instruments giving the album a more orchestrated (but nevertheless spare) sound. The album is silver in the UK, but never entered the Billboard Top 200 in the US.
A remastered CD was released in 1995, and in 2009 it was included in Hallelujah – The Essential Leonard Cohen Album Collection, an 8-CD box set issued by Sony Music in the Netherlands.
- ^ "Belinda Carlisle, Heaven Is A Place On Earth, Single". Bpi.co.uk. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
- ^ "Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony". AllMusic. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
- ^ "Robert Christgau review". Robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
- ^ "Leonard Cohen: New Skin For The Old Ceremony : Music Reviews". Rollingstone.com. February 22, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-02-22. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
- ^ Williamson, Nigel (December 1997). "Cohen on CD: more songs about sex, death and raincoats...". Uncut. No. 7. p. 26-27.