Music with Graeme Downes

A look at the 14th and final studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker, released in 2016 just 19 days before his death. The critically acclaimed album was created towards the end of Cohen's life, and focuses on death, God and humour. Graeme Downes is a founding member of the Verlaines, songwriter, musicologist, senior lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Otago.