Adam Cohen
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Adam Cohen is finally climbing out from father Leonard's shadow.
Hamilton Spectator
By Nick Patch
TORONTO
The tall, dark shadow of Leonard Cohen looms everywhere for his singer-songwriter son, Adam — even his calendar.
Adam's career-making "Like a Man" came out in fall 2011, just months before his morose poet father launched his uniformly praised chart-topping return to form "Old Ideas."
It's nearly three years later, and an anxiously motivated Adam is hoping to capitalize on his long-sought breakthrough with the follow-up "We Go Home."
It was released a little over a week ago — or, in other words, a little over a week before the release of Leonard's latest, "Popular Problems."
"What is his problem?" joked Adam in a recent interview. "Why is he trying to eclipse me? What have I done wrong?
"Maybe," he added, "this is finally a sign that my record really is good."
His last album, certainly, turned around a career that up to that point sort of wasn't one. Cohen came out with his self-titled debut back in 1998, and followed with a French-language album in 2004, as well as a disc as frontman of the alt-rock outfit Low Millions.
None of those records did very well, and he questioned his priorities and commitment before questioning whether he should quit altogether. He went away for seven years, then came back with "Like a Man" — a record on which he embraced a sound much closer to his father's. Finally, he found an audience and the record went gold here.
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