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You Want It Darker

by Leonard Cohen

You Want It Darker is a 2016 rock album by Leonard Cohen. It runs 9 tracks across 36 minutes on Columbia. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.4/5 from 5 ratings.

Rock · Folk Rock · Singer-Songwriter

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5 ratings
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9
Tracks
36 min
Runtime
109 bpm
Tempo
F major
Key

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5 ratings · avg 4.4

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You Want It Darker album cover

You Want It Darker album cover

The You Want It Darker cover was designed by Sammy Slabbinck, photographed by Adam Cohen, and illustrated by Dianne V. Lawrence.

Design
Sammy Slabbinck
Photography
Adam Cohen
Illustration
Dianne V. Lawrence

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9 tracks · 36 min

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"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.

In brief

Is You Want It Darker good?
Riffiter listeners rate You Want It Darker 4.4/5 from 5 ratings.
When was You Want It Darker released?
You Want It Darker was released in 2016 on Columbia.
How many tracks are on You Want It Darker?
You Want It Darker has 9 tracks, with a runtime of 36 minutes.
What genre is You Want It Darker?
You Want It Darker is catalogued under Rock, Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter.
What BPM is You Want It Darker?
You Want It Darker runs at a median tempo of 109 BPM across its tracks, most often in F major, measured from audio analysis.
What albums are similar to You Want It Darker?
Listeners of You Want It Darker also rate Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan, In Rainbows by Radiohead, Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan.

You Want It Darker at a glance

Label
Columbia Records
Produced by
Patrick Leonard, Adam Cohen

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