You Want It Darker
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Universal acclaim- based on 184 Ratings
- Summary: The 14th full-length studio release for the Canadian singer-songwriter was produced by his son.
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- Record Label: Columbia
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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| If you are the dealer I'm out of the game If you are the healer it means I'm broken and lame If thine is the glory then Mine must be the shame You... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 28 out of 28
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Nov 16, 2016This album, musically, feels like a return to Cohen’s work in the 1960’s and 1970’s. While all the songs are brilliant, they’re not pop songs.
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Oct 18, 2016Leonard Cohen’s 14th studio album is a bleak masterpiece for hard times from pop’s longest-serving poet.
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Oct 19, 2016Using his remaining time, he’s not only putting his house in order, he’s tidying up ours too. You Want It Darker prepares us for his departure and, in turn, shows us how it’s done, so we have a road map--pockmarked by land mines as it is--in place when we reach that stage.
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Oct 18, 2016It's become a cliche to treat every latter-day Cohen album like a potential swansong but it's hard to imagine a richer, finer or more satisfying finale than this. [Nov 2016, p.18]
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Oct 21, 2016He’s choosing to examine his life (and life’s work) rather than ponder the abyss. That ensures You Want It Darker doesn’t feel like an ending, as much as it feels like one more chapter in Cohen’s songbook.
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Nov 3, 2016It’s as strong a collection as any of his in recent times and tied together of course by that voice--deeply authoritative, unfathomably evocative and really quite irreplaceable.
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Oct 24, 2016You Want It Darker doesn’t just boast a broad sonic palette, but the return of a broad-minded pop sensibility to his work after a sustained period of asceticism, with a precise lyrical platform granted manifold meanings through differing musical approaches, the songs bolstered by Eastern rhythms, full-bodied organ lines, and choral chants.
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Positive: 14 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Oct 21, 2016This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Apr 2, 2020A dark and mystical masterpiece that fascinates and terrifies you at the same time, presenting Leonard Cohen's voice at the highest level of depth.
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Nov 20, 2019Simply, quite possibly the most perfectly fragile, devastating and hopeful album of the 21st Century. Exquisite in its pain
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