![]() Instead, this collection of tender songs finds Cohen at his most calm and reflective. ![]() Thankfully this album doesn’t fall into the trap of posthumous records that feel like they’re shamelessly re-animating a corpse and therefore should have been left on the cutting room floor. ![]() It means that posthumous follow-up ‘Thanks for the Dance’ – helmed by Cohen’s son Adam and comprised of unfinished songs from the ‘You Want It Darker’ sessions coloured in by musicians such as Beck, Feist, Damien Rice, Bryce Dessner of The National, Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire and long-time Cohen collaborators Javier Mas and Jennifer Warnes – has a lot to live up to. The late folk singer channelled the existential hopelessness of an America ready to trade Barack Obama for Donald Trump, the melancholic lyrics (at one point, Cohen croons, “A million candles burning for the help that never came”) still hard to forget about.įor many, it was the perfect sign off, as a wounded Cohen proved he was still capable of wryly reflecting on society and penning powerful lyrics that hit you right in the gut. ![]() ![]() Leonard Cohen’s ‘You Want It Darker’, the 2016 album released just a few weeks before the legendary poet passed away aged 82, was uncompromisingly bleak. ![]()
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