So the much in demand mix master, Mister Nigel Godrich is also collaborating with Beck on a creative project titled, rather tritely, The Record Club which is the ambitious undertaking of covering of an entire album in one day. The first album to get the Hansen/Godrich treatment was The Velvet Underground & Nico. Now Beck and Devendra Banhart tag-team Leonard Cohen’s oeuvre. I secretly say a prayer every night that ‘Alexandra Leaving’ is next on their list. It goes something like this: “Jesus, I don’t ask you for much; I mean, sure… I’ve been known to use your name in vain somewhat infrequently (ha)… but there’s no such thing as bad press, right? So in light of the fact that there are NO SONGS about Alexandra’s except for this melancholy Cohen tune could you perhaps throw me a bone, pls. kthxbyexx**”
