understated accompaniment that Leonard Cohen fans can identify with earmuffs on."} 62:T432,“This album was not only an exercise in sharing material of mine that resembles my father’s work but also an exercise in celebrating that influence,” says Cohen, who is on a month-long tour of Europe in support of the album. He and his two accompanists will be arriving in Israel next week for a show on December 13 at the Barby Club.

61:{"position":4,"content":"$62"} 63:{"position":5,"content":"Making an album that skirts so closely to his father’s themes, moods and sounds would have previously been unthinkable for the Quebec native, whose musical career has seen him make indie rock with the band Low Millions and delve into French music on his 2004 album Melancolista."} 64:{"position":6,"content":"“Perhaps [frequently changing styles] might have hurt me, but I’m a Francophone from Montreal, and I spent 12 years in France. I was trying to throw the anchor off the shores of the Francophone world, but unfortunately a terrible wind blew and it wasn’t successful,” says Cohen, who spent much of his childhood in France with his mother after his parents separated."} 65:{"position":7,"content":"He did, however, visit his father frequently, and by the age of

Manning up

Following in his famous father’s footsteps, singer Adam Cohen has established himself as the genuine article.