The Future is currently my favorite album by Leonard Cohen, and some of his darkest material.
Coming four years after I’m Your Man, The Future finds Cohen even less optimistic and just as hoarse. That’s OK, he has a choir of angels to back him – or, at least, it sounds that way.
If you’ve seen Natural Born Killers, several songs off The Future are going to sound familiar. (If you’ve seen the movie, you know that the soundtrack is really the best thing about the movie…)