--- product_id: 34924488 title: "You Want It Darker" price: "€ 29.22" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/34924488-you-want-it-darker store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Dark theme aesthetic Shrink-wrapped for freshness Secure packaging You Want It Darker **Price:** € 29.22 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > 🌌 Embrace the Dark Side of Quality! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** You Want It Darker - **How much does it cost?** € 29.22 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/34924488-you-want-it-darker) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Sleek Aesthetic:** Elevate your space with a sophisticated dark theme that resonates with modern design. - β€’ **Secure & Reliable:** Rest easy knowing your product is protected from external elements. - β€’ **Perfect for Gifting:** Impress friends and colleagues with a product that looks as good as it performs. - β€’ **Unmatched Freshness:** Experience the ultimate in product preservation with shrink-wrapped packaging. - β€’ **Limited Availability:** Don’t miss out on this exclusive offeringβ€”grab yours before it’s gone! ## Overview You Want It Darker is a premium product that comes shrink-wrapped for optimal freshness and protection, featuring a sleek dark aesthetic that appeals to modern sensibilities. Perfect for gifting or personal use, this product combines style with functionality, ensuring you stand out in any setting. ## Description 2016 release, the 14th studio album from the veteran singer/songwriter. Leonard Cohen, the acclaimed composer of "Hallelujah", continues to astonish his audience. At age 82, he presents his uncompromising and urgent album, You Want It Darker. Described by early listeners as a "masterpiece" and "classic Cohen," You Want It Darker, is the latest chapter in Leonard's significant contribution to contemporary music and thought. These startling songs have been beautifully realized in this this studio album featuring nine new tracks including the title track, all produced by his son, Adam Cohen. Review: Heart Wrenching Masterwork - I came back to slightly edit my review when I read the discussion/comparison of Dylan and Cohen. My view? None. Cohen is a poet of the soul, a soul that turned itself inside out to tell us the truth. Truth is at the heart of every one of Cohen's masterworks - of which I agree, there were many, and many loved, and many sung. In his culminating album, I reprise the reviewer who wrote 'achingly' to add to my own. Cohen is an irreplaceable for all those who feel now inconsolable. That he was ready, consider "Treaty", consider "I'm Ready, My Lord. I stand with those who call You Want it Darker a masterpiece. In a single album we have the traveling light we all come to. May I detain you to recount a little story of the man's generosity. And, charm! And insouciant wry wit? Many years ago I'd read of a Canadian poet, not very known, a man who didn't perform. He was well educated but discovered poetry is the hardest art. I then saw him (you can, too) on You Tube in a panic. Judy Collins had invited him to sing with her. He wouldn't come out. The audience started to sing one of his songs.... I leave the ellipsis as he might have. Years later I learned Cohen was coming to my city. I felt sure the concert would be sold out. "No," said the ticket-taker. "Plenty of seats." There were fewer than 30. He came out in a raincoat, collar turned up, a fedora and leaned over the footlights. I'm paraphrasing: Hello. Come on down here where I can see you. Get right up close. What am I gonna do? (I noted he used more colloquial speech to join the disparate and diverse crowds he later gathered.) I'm gonna tell a few stories...sing a few songs...I'm gonna give you a full two and a/half hours. How many can you name who stands alone, in shadow, a man and his guitar .... those were there that night - no groupies ... knew unmistakably we were in the presence of a mystic who didn't disguise it. Those of us who heard Adam Cohen, who watched interviews over the years, didn't we feel the stab of his pain, of his painful, measured departure. We now know how the album was created. I don't understand those who wrote "not his best". Granted, each assessment is subjective. I write then for myself and any who may find this small eulogy to a man whose last songs were so intimate, human, vulnerable. I had the privilege of meeting the man when he was little known, when few showed up for his concert. He came out to the footlights, peered into the scattered 30 or fewer and said, "Come on up a little closer. Gather in. I'll tell a few stories, sing a few songs...we're gonna' have the whole two and a/half hours...." Unless you know the full story of Cohen's panic attacks (too long to recount here unless someone reading this queries in the box provided), I'll just say his rational fears and grief he talked of openly were generated by being forced to view his beloved father in an open casket in his own parlor. This is not done in the culltural heritage he did actually follow all his life, calling himself spiritual. He ran to his father's closet to cry among his father's clothes. He later said in an interview, he didn't know why he'd gotten a scissors and cut the tip off one of his father's bow ties. He said he didn't know why. That rending of cloth is symbolic that the dead no longer need clothes. How I wish I'd written him of this. I can hear the song he might have written. I do feel that early loss deepened his sensibility, many times brought him to the brink, turned him to alcohol, drugs. But unlike the many - he fought on. He battled the demons until they quit him. Rather, he quit them. His songs are multi-layered, metaphysical, melodious. Oh those bridges, those shifting melancholy chords. We here on the side of profoundest praise doff our hats to his subtle genius, sardonic charm, his wit, his clear-sighted self-awareness. Praise his social activism, commentary, encompassed in a well-educated man of 'good family' whose deferential manner wrapped his in-person eloquence. His gravelly voice and truth-telling make him a forever star in the pantheon. Was he a force? I say, a multitude of one. A singularity. Listen to the interviews of which there are many. Hear, then read his last poignant message sent to Marianne (also dying), Marianne, his lifelong true-love. If you happen to be Jewish, (or even if you're not), there's a rabbi on You Tube who analyzes the meaning of every word of "You Want it Darker" -- most lines transliterated from the Old Testament. So, our great poet of the people came full circle. Cohen said he was never religious. You rarely find anything of the sort in his songs. All the Cohen songs you ever loved were glorious testimony to being alive - at whatever stage on the road. "Chelsea Hotel", "Bird on a Wire", "Dance me to the End of Love". So many. It's a cumulative mother-lode. Then came Hallelujah, possibly the legacy song for some as so many singers have made it their own. Of "You Want it Darker" - a testimony to love of life and acceptance of Death. "If you're the dealer, I'm out of the game." Here's to the high-hatted fedora tossed in the air. Here's to the man who danced near the end. "I'm ready, My Lord." Review: ...you want it leonard... - In my life, sadly, I have lived thru too many passings, not only of a personal nature, but also those who have been such a personal influence on my life from afar... Leonard Cohen is such a person...and, as many know, he recently passed, leaving us with one last album before he left, appropriately titled, 'You Want It Darker'... Adding to his already previous canon of brilliant, often dark, masterpieces, the man who came up with 'Bird On A Wire', 'Chelsea Hotel #2', 'Anthem', 'First We Take Manhattan', 'A Thousand Kisses Deep', 'The Future', 'If It Be Your Will', 'Famous Blue Raincoat', and so many more to mention, now has songs like 'Treaty', 'Traveling Light', and the title track, 'You Want It Darker, to add to his definitive work... In fact, every track on this album is so brilliant, that it is indeed at the very top of my list as best album of the year...It begins with the title track, in an almost prophetic funeral chant that leads into a beat and lyrics that will send chills up your spine... And this is DEFINITELY an album to listen to...This is not just background music while you're cleaning the toilet or texting the electors for a change...These lyrics are not only brilliant on their own, but also with a definite premonition of days left to come... Tracks like 'Steer Your Way', 'If I Didn't Have Your Love', and 'Leaving The Table' are lyrical depth charges now knowing what we know...and it probably wouldn't have been so unexpected had this album been heard prior to his leaving... One great sadness is thinking about not being able to see him perform these live, whether in person or on dvd...I bet they would have been incredible... But by any event...in his leaving, he fortunately left us with this intimate reminder of his soul exposed... ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B01KN6XDS6 | | Batteries | 1 AA batteries required. | | Best Sellers Rank | #10,429 in CDs & Vinyl ( See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl ) #5,398 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl) #7,127 in Sexual Wellness Products | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (5,164) | | Date First Available | August 18, 2016 | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No | | Label | Legacy Recordings | | Language | English | | Manufacturer | Legacy Recordings | | Number of discs | 1 | | Original Release Date | 2016 | | Product Dimensions | 5.66 x 5.12 x 0.31 inches; 2.56 ounces | | Run time | 36 minutes | ## Images ![You Want It Darker - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/616XE38kSNL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Heart Wrenching Masterwork *by A***S on January 4, 2017* I came back to slightly edit my review when I read the discussion/comparison of Dylan and Cohen. My view? None. Cohen is a poet of the soul, a soul that turned itself inside out to tell us the truth. Truth is at the heart of every one of Cohen's masterworks - of which I agree, there were many, and many loved, and many sung. In his culminating album, I reprise the reviewer who wrote 'achingly' to add to my own. Cohen is an irreplaceable for all those who feel now inconsolable. That he was ready, consider "Treaty", consider "I'm Ready, My Lord. I stand with those who call You Want it Darker a masterpiece. In a single album we have the traveling light we all come to. May I detain you to recount a little story of the man's generosity. And, charm! And insouciant wry wit? Many years ago I'd read of a Canadian poet, not very known, a man who didn't perform. He was well educated but discovered poetry is the hardest art. I then saw him (you can, too) on You Tube in a panic. Judy Collins had invited him to sing with her. He wouldn't come out. The audience started to sing one of his songs.... I leave the ellipsis as he might have. Years later I learned Cohen was coming to my city. I felt sure the concert would be sold out. "No," said the ticket-taker. "Plenty of seats." There were fewer than 30. He came out in a raincoat, collar turned up, a fedora and leaned over the footlights. I'm paraphrasing: Hello. Come on down here where I can see you. Get right up close. What am I gonna do? (I noted he used more colloquial speech to join the disparate and diverse crowds he later gathered.) I'm gonna tell a few stories...sing a few songs...I'm gonna give you a full two and a/half hours. How many can you name who stands alone, in shadow, a man and his guitar .... those were there that night - no groupies ... knew unmistakably we were in the presence of a mystic who didn't disguise it. Those of us who heard Adam Cohen, who watched interviews over the years, didn't we feel the stab of his pain, of his painful, measured departure. We now know how the album was created. I don't understand those who wrote "not his best". Granted, each assessment is subjective. I write then for myself and any who may find this small eulogy to a man whose last songs were so intimate, human, vulnerable. I had the privilege of meeting the man when he was little known, when few showed up for his concert. He came out to the footlights, peered into the scattered 30 or fewer and said, "Come on up a little closer. Gather in. I'll tell a few stories, sing a few songs...we're gonna' have the whole two and a/half hours...." Unless you know the full story of Cohen's panic attacks (too long to recount here unless someone reading this queries in the box provided), I'll just say his rational fears and grief he talked of openly were generated by being forced to view his beloved father in an open casket in his own parlor. This is not done in the culltural heritage he did actually follow all his life, calling himself spiritual. He ran to his father's closet to cry among his father's clothes. He later said in an interview, he didn't know why he'd gotten a scissors and cut the tip off one of his father's bow ties. He said he didn't know why. That rending of cloth is symbolic that the dead no longer need clothes. How I wish I'd written him of this. I can hear the song he might have written. I do feel that early loss deepened his sensibility, many times brought him to the brink, turned him to alcohol, drugs. But unlike the many - he fought on. He battled the demons until they quit him. Rather, he quit them. His songs are multi-layered, metaphysical, melodious. Oh those bridges, those shifting melancholy chords. We here on the side of profoundest praise doff our hats to his subtle genius, sardonic charm, his wit, his clear-sighted self-awareness. Praise his social activism, commentary, encompassed in a well-educated man of 'good family' whose deferential manner wrapped his in-person eloquence. His gravelly voice and truth-telling make him a forever star in the pantheon. Was he a force? I say, a multitude of one. A singularity. Listen to the interviews of which there are many. Hear, then read his last poignant message sent to Marianne (also dying), Marianne, his lifelong true-love. If you happen to be Jewish, (or even if you're not), there's a rabbi on You Tube who analyzes the meaning of every word of "You Want it Darker" -- most lines transliterated from the Old Testament. So, our great poet of the people came full circle. Cohen said he was never religious. You rarely find anything of the sort in his songs. All the Cohen songs you ever loved were glorious testimony to being alive - at whatever stage on the road. "Chelsea Hotel", "Bird on a Wire", "Dance me to the End of Love". So many. It's a cumulative mother-lode. Then came Hallelujah, possibly the legacy song for some as so many singers have made it their own. Of "You Want it Darker" - a testimony to love of life and acceptance of Death. "If you're the dealer, I'm out of the game." Here's to the high-hatted fedora tossed in the air. Here's to the man who danced near the end. "I'm ready, My Lord." ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ...you want it leonard... *by R***O on December 14, 2016* In my life, sadly, I have lived thru too many passings, not only of a personal nature, but also those who have been such a personal influence on my life from afar... Leonard Cohen is such a person...and, as many know, he recently passed, leaving us with one last album before he left, appropriately titled, 'You Want It Darker'... Adding to his already previous canon of brilliant, often dark, masterpieces, the man who came up with 'Bird On A Wire', 'Chelsea Hotel #2', 'Anthem', 'First We Take Manhattan', 'A Thousand Kisses Deep', 'The Future', 'If It Be Your Will', 'Famous Blue Raincoat', and so many more to mention, now has songs like 'Treaty', 'Traveling Light', and the title track, 'You Want It Darker, to add to his definitive work... In fact, every track on this album is so brilliant, that it is indeed at the very top of my list as best album of the year...It begins with the title track, in an almost prophetic funeral chant that leads into a beat and lyrics that will send chills up your spine... And this is DEFINITELY an album to listen to...This is not just background music while you're cleaning the toilet or texting the electors for a change...These lyrics are not only brilliant on their own, but also with a definite premonition of days left to come... Tracks like 'Steer Your Way', 'If I Didn't Have Your Love', and 'Leaving The Table' are lyrical depth charges now knowing what we know...and it probably wouldn't have been so unexpected had this album been heard prior to his leaving... One great sadness is thinking about not being able to see him perform these live, whether in person or on dvd...I bet they would have been incredible... But by any event...in his leaving, he fortunately left us with this intimate reminder of his soul exposed... ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Masterpiece to finish his body of work *by O***H on October 6, 2022* Before Cohen created this final release of his lifetime, I felt that "I'm Your Man" was his best followed closely by "Various Positions". Then I listened to this. In my mind this is a biographical work. He lays it all out. His view of faith, life, love and evil which resides in us all. It is pure raw Cohen. I think it is his most personal and honest album he did. It is beautiful. It is sad. It is questioning. Cohen knew he was coming to the end and this would be his chance to make his statement. When I finished listening to it the first time, I just sat and thought about what I had just heard. I felt a lump in my throat realizing that this was his final message to the world. He manages to pack all of this into a mere 36 minutes. His voice is somber and emotional. I recommend this album to everyone I know. It is Cohen at his best. It is one of my go to albums when I need it. Perfect masterpiece to bring his body of work to an end. Part of me wishes that "Thanks For The Dance" would have been left on the shelf, but a little more Cohen is a good thing. But this, this was his true swansong. Thank you Mr.Cohen. ## Frequently Bought Together - You Want It Darker - The Essential Leonard Cohen - Various Positions --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/34924488-you-want-it-darker](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/34924488-you-want-it-darker) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-04-22*