NPR Music - You Must Hear This

First Listen: Leonard Cohen, 'Popular Problems' Cohen's 13th album creates a space for slow-moving reflection that expands with each listen. The tarpit-voiced raconteur's songs unfold like dirty canticles, with room for both jokes and profundities. Stream the album

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED The Good Listener: Do You Ever Just Get Sick Of Music? Ugh, all of those notes. What's a listener to do when music no longer soothes, enthralls or excites the way it once did? Read this story