>Cohen died in 2016 at the age of 82, but he had been composing

based

>You Want It Darker (Columbia, 2016), released three weeks before his death, unfolds gently, warmly, but in reality with a mathematical implacable logic. It is certainly not a masterpiece worthy of his early albums, but it is perhaps the closest to his first album, Songs Of Leonard Cohen (1967). It is de facto a concept about God, but then, again, most of his albums were. A monks choir opens You Want It Darker and a kohen's invocation closes it. The song is a muttered dialogue with death, with the refrain "I'm ready, my lord" that sends shivers down the listener's spine, and organ and choir that barely intrude over a timid dance beat. Treaty starts as a piano elegy but it is supported mainly by strings and synth (and is later reprised as a chamber piece). On The Level is one of his memorable gospels, Leaving The Table flirts amiably with a tex-mex guitar, simple and diligent like the love song If I Didn't Have Your Love. Cohen's son Adam arranges Traveling Light with soul organ, Latin-tinged female choir, gypsy violin and flamenco guitar, and the macabre It Seemed The Better Way with a lonely violin towering over male choir, droning organ, and dance beat. There is very little music in this album, but as stately as it can be.

>His lyrics are more personal than ever, but he still remains a master of penning poignant parables of parables of parables of... Cohen was always a better writer than Dylan and proved it one more time just when Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. "I'm sorry for the ghost I made you be. Only one of us was real... and that was me."

Why is he so conflictive bros?

File: hopelessness.png (77KB, 305x1270px) Image search: [Google]

77KB, 305x1270px

He's becoming more and more bitter lately.

>>70863087

I know. I like this new phase of Scaruffi.

>Despite its brevity, the album feels too long for what the band has gotten: the second half is mostly disposable. This should have been an even shorter record. Kenneth William, who composed each song in a different key, is a competent composer but there are a few thousand around. Way has become a better songwriter, but, if you want to read good poetry, i can recommend a few thousand better poets. One misses the point. If you are just making average music with average lyrics, and very little energy, why should people listen to you instead of the other thousands?

>>70863112
>The symphonic crescendo Time As a Symptom is emblematic of what can happen when a singer-songwriter mis-interprets the word "music". This should have been a six-song EP.

Is he just getting impatient?

>>70863087
Pray for Scaruffi guys

>>70863631
>This should have been a six-song EP.
He says this about a lot of albums to be fair

>>70863978
Even said that about Atrocity Exhibition, I really don't agree with his review of that or DJWWW

>>70863087
best review I've red in a while