“The 70-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter releases the second and strongest album since his recent re-emergence from years of monastic exile. The result is an album that continues Cohen's collaborations with Sharon Robinson and Anjani Thomas, mixes his typically sophisticated sound with lite-jazz arrangements and a confrontation with mortality.”
“Thirteen new (and old) songs from Canada’s hippest seventy-year-old. It’s folly to complain that Leonard Cohen has lost his voice, since he never really had one to begin with. From the thin Canadian-folkie drawl of 1967’s Songs of Leonard Cohen to the grave, gravelly tone that settled in circa 1988’s I’m Your Man, Cohen is […]”