Leonard Cohen at 82, darker and solitary

Leonard Cohen has spent a lifetime meditating on his relationship to God and, at 82, he finds himself solitary as he wrestles with the ultimate metaphysical questions.

You Want It Darker, the 14th album by the Canadian singer and poet, brings out Cohen at his most classic and most probing as he ponders the nature of the individual and of the Almighty.

Celebrating his 82nd birthday on Wednesday, his record label announced that You Want It Darker, produced by his musician son Adam Cohen, will come out on Oct 21.