As he nears the end of his life he reflects poignantly and beautifully upon life and death.
The overall effect is the ultimate in chilled!īut, as always with Cohen, the music is just the vehicle to deliver the lyrics, which are themselves musical. The richness of his half-spoken bass voice is wonderfully complemented by guitar, organ, piano, violin and warm vocal female harmonies. There is a depth, beauty and simplicity in every song. This is an extraordinary album that I would recommend without reservation to any human being with a soul! Christians will love this and if preachers cannot get a rich source of material from it, then they should probably resign. For those who associate his albums with misery and suicidal inclinations I suspect the title will only confirm their preconceptions – You Want it Darker. At 82 years old he has just produced his 14 th studio album. It's something that remains true as he continues to produce outstanding albums into his ninth decade. Halfway through the concert I turned to my sister and opined that most of the people present would not really get the songs because 50 per cent of the lyrics were about sex and the other 50 per cent were biblical allusions. Thousands of us gathered to hear him sing the classics we all remembered – Marianne, Hallelujah, the Chelsea Hotel and so on. He certainly deserves it, but surely the first songwriter to receive that esteemed award should have been the Canadian wordsmith, Leonard Cohen? Possibly the best concert I have even been to was Leonard Cohen's at Edinburgh Castle a few years ago. There was only one thing wrong with Bob Dylan being given the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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