Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather
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Artist: Leonard CohenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-10-26
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Go No More A-Roving
- Because Of
- The Letters
- Undertow
- Morning Glory
- On That Day
- Villanelle For Our Time
- There For You
- Dear Heather
- Nightingale
- To A Teacher
- The Faith
- Tennessee Waltz- Live
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Free Music Review: Cohen Transcends the Moment with "Dear Heather"
Hit: 5 Stars
Perhaps unique in modern musical storytelling, Leonard Cohen carries none of the face-twisting angst, outrage, or urgency infused in today's most lauded releases. While America turns to politically engaged artists to define our era, Cohen transcends this calling with "Dear Heather," a work steeped in the everlasting rather than in any transient moment. Cohen's ubiquitous comparison, Bob Dylan, unflinchingly tells us where we are; however, Cohen manages to unpretentiously suggest where we ought to be. Even when speaking to the scars of recent years in the patient song, "On That Day" Cohens speaks in an ageless voice. "Some people say / It's what we deserve / For sins against g-d / For crimes in the world / I wouldn't know / I'm just holding the fort / Since that day / They wounded New York." Each twang of Cohen's jew's harp speaks simultaneously to the frailty of human life and the great simplicity of the sublime. He presents 9/11 as an event of spiritual consequence, a tragedy uncurable by the political realm.
From the opening track, Cohen cues the listener that his interests are anything but populist, resurrecting Lord Byron's "Go No More A-Roving" in ways both sexual and uber-modern. Ever the poetic refractor, the Canadian bard also lends his septenarian thrum to Frank Scott's "Villanelle For Our Time." Like a grandfather giving up the truth which he cannot take with him, Cohen recites Scott's words, both prophetic and prescriptive: "This is the faith from which we start: / Men shall know commonwealth again / From bitter seaching of the heart."
Old fans looking for the hijacked sound of "Death of a Ladies Man" or the ominous and imposing gloom of "First We Take Manhattan" should brace themselves for dissapointment. Cohen moves slower, sitting drenched in every moment of Anjani Thomas and Sharon Robinson's background vocals as though each note held the promise of a longer tomorrow. "Rush" and "hurry" have left Cohen's musical lexicon.
"Dear Heather" is the medicine which men cannot be given, but instead must look for. It lacks hooks, riffs, choruses that stay lodged in the head. Instead, it gives God, in as many forms as the world has faiths. Or perhaps God gives it, in the gift of music. Thankfully, Cohen willingly submits as the conduit.
Dear Heather Poster
Japanese pressing of the acclaimed singer/songwriter's 2004 album, includes the exclusive live version of 'Tennessee Waltz'. Sony.Leonard Cohen must be the envy of countless singer-songwriters. Who else has been cozily buffered from the ravages of pop music than this eminent but never particularly prominent Canadian wordsmith? Nearing four decades as a recording artist, Cohen has never left his original label, despite failing to ever register anything resembling a commercial hit. Long ago shed of the "new Dylan" trappings that greeted his first recordings, Cohen now cushions his carefully wrought lyrics in smooth keyboard-and-vocal-heavy arrangements that owe far more to MOR pop and cabaret then folk-rock. His words and delivery have become more nuanced and playful as he's grayed. Listen to the sexy self-deprecation of "Because of" ("Because of a few songs/ Wherein I spoke of their mystery/ Women have been/ Exceptionally kind in my old age") or the weary resolve of his 9-11 statement, "On That Day" ("Did you go crazy or did you report/ On that day?they wounded New York?"). Dear Heather, likes its creator, is at once new and old, familiar and fresh. --Steven Stolder
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