• About,  Archive

    Top 10 Canadian Albums of 2012

    One Great Year for CanCon! By Daniel Polowin 10.  Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas After a somewhat unfortunate decade, this septuagenarian Canadian icon staged a comeback in 2012 with a worldwide tour and this platinum-selling album. Cohen is at top form in this, his first album of new material in eight years. Accompanying the bluesy instrumentation and the smoky baritone vocals we’ve come to expect from Cohen are some of his most moving lyrics yet. Cohen returns to his familiar meditations on love, sex, and God but with the added poignancy of a poet in the autumn of his life. 9.  A Tribe Called Red – A Tribe Called Red Combining electronic, hip hop,…