Ten New Songs is fantastic - especially the track Alexandra Leaving, which John Kelly's been playing on Mystery Train on RTE radio for some weeks now. You might be able to listen to Mystery Train on www.rte.ie, I'm not sure.

I've always been fond of his music - which I don't find depressing, though his voice has a gloomy timbre. But who else could write lines like

"A bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes
Were smoking out along the open road"

or (from Alexandra Leaving):

"And you who had the honour of her evening
And by the honour had your own restored"

or, from the same song,

"Do not choose a coward's explanation
That hides behind the cause and the effect"

or the mise-en-scene, again from Alexandra Leaving:

"As someone long prepared for this to happen
Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing."

Besides, Lennie writes the best seduction music. Ask any old roue.