Recent Songs

Recent Songs
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 27, 1979
RecordedApril – May 1979
StudioA&M (Hollywood)
GenreContemporary folk
Length52:55
LabelColumbia
ProducerLeonard Cohen, Henry Lewy
Leonard Cohen chronology
Death of a Ladies' Man
(1977)
Recent Songs
(1979)
Various Positions
(1984)

Recent Songs is the sixth studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1979. Produced by Cohen alongside Henry Lewy, it was a return to his normal acoustic folk music sound after the Phil Spector-driven experimentation of Death of a Ladies' Man, but now with many jazz and Oriental influences.