Of course nothing but good about the dead. Or about the near-dead, as witness the praise under which Leonard Cohen's last record was buried in his lifetime. released in late 2016 and 19 days before he passed away at the age of 82. It still left a few unfinished residual material. It now appears in the form of the pleasantly short Thanks For The Dance, with contributions from , , (in outlier The
… Hills) and of course the inevitable . Still, according to son and producer Adam Cohen, the album should not be seen as a 'collection of cast-offs or b-sides', but as a continuation of You Want It Darker. Fans of Cohen's moody murmurs on that record, about God, humor and death, can therefore blindly purchase. (RME)more
