Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (2016) [FLAC] torrent

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (2016) [FLAC]

Genres: Folk, Rock
Style: Singer/Songwriter
Source: WEB
Codec: FLAC
Bit rate: ~
Bit depth: 16
Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

01 You Want It Darker
02 Treaty
03 On the Level
04 Leaving the Table
05 If I Didn't Have Your Love
06 Traveling Light
07 It Seemed the Better Way
08 Steer Your Way
09 String Reprise / Treaty

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 injury that required him to sing from a medically designed chair.

Cohen's sepulchral voice expresses a wealth of emotion through its grainy rasp. He remains defiant even while acknowledging failures, regrets, brokenness, and even anger. Redemption arrives, if at all, through unflinching honesty. The title track single is introduced by a choir and a foreboding bassline. Its lyric is as much an indictment of religion as a reflection, personal confession, and doubt. Cantor Gideon Y. Zelermyer engages with the sacred even as Cohen wrestles with it. For every, "Himeni, Himeni/I'm ready my Lord…" there is a counter: "...Magnified and sanctified/Be thy Holy Name/Vilified and crucified/In the human frame/A million candles burning/For the help that never came…." In the final verse he asserts: "If you are the dealer/I want out of this game," but he's answered by Zelermyer's and the choir's resolute devotion