Love it and weep

Review Score: (10/10)
This albums is truely unbelievably great. It's by far the darkest and most desperate of all his albums and the lyrics seem to be from some mysterious and lonesome planet where all the pain is changed into beautiful and haunting music. Cohen was down, depressed, desperate...and brilliant. "Famous blue raincoat" is my all time favourite song and makes me feel like crying. "Last year's man" is almost as good. All the other songs are great too, except for maybe "Diamonds in the mine", which was not meanth to be beautiful but to transfer pure madness. Maybe this album will be too much for you and you can't handle it...don't commit suicide though....or you will never be able to listen to it again.

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