Leonard Cohen / SONG OF LOVE AND HATE

It doesn’t get darker than this. Though Leonard Cohen had already established himself as the doyen of doom with his first two albums, his third, Songs of Love And Hate, finds him kicking off the 1970s with the sharpest repudiation of the ’60s peace-and-love / flower-power ethic the world had yet seen from the ‘sensitive troubadour’ corner of the music map.