The great Leonard Cohen settles into a world-weary blues groove for “Darkness,” the latest preview from his 12th studio LP, Old Ideas. “I caught the darkness, baby,” he sings toward the end of the bleak track, in which the titular refrain alludes to an ambiguous illness Cohen has failed to evade — not unlike the darkness Will Oldham once saw. “And I got it worse than you.”
Update: The album’s opening track is now streaming, as well.