A stunningly sophisticated leap into modern musical textures,
I'm Your Man
re-establishes
Leonard Cohen
's mastery. Against a backdrop of keyboards and propulsive rhythms,
Cohen
surveys the global landscape with a precise, unflinching eye: the opening
"First We Take Manhattan"
is an ominous fantasy of commercial success bundled in crypto-fascist imagery, while the remarkable
"Everybody Knows"
is a cynical catalog of the land mines littering the surface of love in the age of AIDS. ~ Jason Ankeny