Leonard Cohen is a Canadian, nay international musical institution. He’s lived a life many would envy and is responsible for at least one song, “Hallelujah” that has become a standard covered by many, many artists and one of the all-time great songs in the pop music canon. And at 77 he’s still doing it, as this Old Ideas album attests. However, while you can feel the life and experiences dripping out of every pore of this album from his grizzled, low-key delivery to the noirish, world-weary lyrics, if I’m gonna vote for an album of stripped down musicality paired to unique vocals, I’m probably gonna go the youth route and vote for an album I’ve been really loving recently, Cold Specks‘ I Predict A Graceful Expulsion.