You Want It Darker

*You Want It Darker* joins *Old Ideas* and *Popular Problems* in a trio of gorgeous, ruminative albums that find Cohen settling his affairs, spiritual (“Leaving the Table”), romantic (“If I Didn’t Have Your Love”), and otherwise. At 35, he sounded like an old man—at 82, he sounds eternal.

Leonard Cohen's 14th studio album feels like a pristine, piously crafted last testament, the informed conclusion of a lifetime of inquiry.

No matter how dire things are, Leonard Cohen reminds us it can all get worse - we could be living in a world without Leonard Cohen.

The Canadian singer offers brooding and bleak truths on his fourteenth studio album

You want it darker? Is that a question or a dare?

Octogenarian lady's man seduces the eternal with grim, spiritual beauty. Our take.

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You Want It Darker

The bleak and sparse arrangements of Leonard Cohen’s 14th studio album make his repeated leave-taking all the more exquisite

The album is a wry reckoning of a lifetime’s worth of damaged relationships, upheld vows, and broken promises.

'You Want It Darker' by Leonard Cohen, album review by Stewart Wiseman. The full-length is now out on Sony/Columbia Records.

Despite all the recent talk about Leonard Cohen’s mortality, his wonderful new album suggests an artist determined to keep moving forward

Album Reviews: Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker review: How much darker can it get?

Leonard Cohen’s 14th studio album is a bleak masterpiece for hard times from pop’s longest-serving poet.

Now 82, Cohen's flame, and his humanity, still burns brightly

A slow joy-ride through the depths of the underworld. CD review by Mark Kidel