Leonard Cohen’s Favourite Games
Review: “Lay Back” – This Is War “Lay Back” unfolds like a half-lit confession, its pulse slow and deliberate, as though each beat is a breath taken between memories. The track doesn’t just reference Leonard Cohen’s Favourite Games and Beautiful Losers — it seems to inhabit their rooms, borrowing the scent of their cigarette smoke and the weight of their silences. It feels less like homage and more like a continuation of the same emotional architecture: a place where intimacy is always shadowed by doubt, and where desire is never cleanly separated from the ache that follows it. The vocal delivery is intimate yet detached, a voice speaking from the edge of a bed at 3 a.m., where desire and disillusionment lie tangled in the same sheets. There’s a sense of someone trying to articulate something fragile without letting it break in their hands. The instrumentation is sparse but deliberate — synth tones and low, percussive murmurs that feel like the hum of a radiator i...
