Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Albums of the Decade - 46. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (2016)

46. LEONARD COHEN - YOU WANT IT DARKER (2016)

It's advent, one of my favourite times of year,  and this Leonard Cohen farewell album typifies that cold night by the fire aesthetic.

The build up to Christmas often gets lauded as a commercial fuck-around, but I had three cheeseburgers last Sunday and just avoided it.

I think I walked around 15 kilometers in the sun, it started snowing at some point too - I don't deliberately try and be off-kilter to not wear a christmas jumper or bake gingerbread, but I'd eat Goose if served some.

The deep baritone is not even croaky at this ripe old age; it was carved before he caved in. There's a voice welded like deep cut steel, trenched, mined, experienced. "You want it darker?" he asks the listener. Yes we do, no ice.




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