Leonard Cohen Thanks For The Dance LP

22 nov 2019

A posthumous Leonard Cohen album called Thanks for the Dance is on the way. It’s out November
22 via Sony Music Entertainment. Listen to “The Goal,” reworked from Cohen’s poem of the same
name. Leonard’s son, Adam Cohen, produced and masterminded the project, enlisting a huge cast
of musicians including Damien Rice and Leslie Feist (vocals), Arcade Fire bassist Richard Reed
Parry, the National’s Bryce Dessner on guitar, Dustin O’Halloran on piano, and Leonard’s bandmate
Javier Mas playing the man’s own guitar. Other features include Beck (on guitar and Jew’s harp),
Daniel Lanois, Jennifer Warnes, the s t a r g a z e orchestra, and others. Adam Cohen says in a
press release, “In composing and arranging the music for his words, we chose his most characteristic
musical signatures, in this way keeping him with us. What moves me most about the album is
the startled response of those who have heard it. ‘Leonard lives!’ they say, one after the other.”

• Vinyl LP

Selections

Side A:

1. Happens To the Heart
2. Moving On
3. The Night of Santiago
4. Thanks For the Dance

Side B:

5. It's Torn
6. The Goal
7. Puppets
8. The Hills
9. Listen to the Hummingbird