You Want It Darker

"You Want It Darker" is the fourteenth full-length studio release for the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released October 21, 2016 on the Columbia label. On its release, You Want It Darker was met with positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 100, based on 4 reviews, indicating Universal acclaim. Neil McCormick, Music Critic wrote --" Leonard Cohen’s 14th studio album is a bleak masterpiece for hard times from pop’s longest-serving poet. At 82 years old, what is truly extraordinary about Cohen is not that he is still making albums but that they are as rich, deep and potent as ever. If anything, his ruminations on life gain added poignancy and urgency with passing time.