“If you are the dealer / I’m out of the game,” he proclaims on the opening title track . I’m ready, my lord.”Cohen has always liked it dark, then, but he makes good on his promise to go one darker here. In his own, elegant way, Cohen is kind of the Godfather of Goth. Cohen’s voice is rightly way out in front here, as grainy and sepulchral and peculiarly expressive within its limited range as it’s ever been. And oddly enough, too, the longer you spend with it, the less dark You Want it Darker feels.

Source: thestar October 20, 2016 12:22 UTC