Leonard Cohen:You Want It Darker...
Leonard Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) Leonard Cohen:Artist Biography by Bruce Eder. A Blaze of Light. Nothing On My Tongue But Hallelujah. ''You Want It Darker'' received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 94, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 11 reviews. Given the subject matter in its title track, Leonard Cohen 's advanced age (82), it's tempting to hear You Want It Darker as a last album. In advance of its release, he even told The New Yorker that he was ready to die, only to walk the comment back later. Whether it is or isn't, You Want It Darker is a hell of a record. Cohen wrote these songs alone and with old friends Sharon Robinson and Patrick Leonard . Son Adam produced, stepping in while his father was suffering from a severe back injur