People just love covering Leonard Cohen, and it makes sense. You can convince yourself that you're cool just by singing along with Cohen. Cohen was never a lights-out vocalist, so there's always a chance that you can do something new with the topline, even if you'll never approach Cohen's presence. Cohen's sultry, slinky, vaguely sleazy 1988 song "I'm Your Man," for instance, has been covered by people like Joe Cocker, Elton John, Nick Cave, and Michael Bublé. I once watched Father John Misty sing that song at Coachella. Today, we get the Storefront Church version.
Lukas Park, the LA musician who records as Storefront Church, released the album Ink & Oil in 2024. A few months ago, he dropped a cover of the Sisters Of Mercy's goth banger "Lucretia, My Reflection." Now, he's shared a clanking, seething take on "I'm Your Man," which is its own kind of goth banger. That gets me thinking: The Sisters Of Mercy were probably named after the Cohen song, right? I bet they were. Listen to the Storefront Church take on "I'm Your Man" and the Leonard Cohen original below.
