November 19, 2019

Leonard Cohen's posthumous record 'Happens to the Heart' - "tender songs find him at his most calm and reflective"

"Cohen is communicating with ghosts, aware he might soon become one himself, but he sounds strangely excited rather than scared" - NME says in a review of Cohen's posthumous album 'Happens to the Heart', helmed by Cohen’s son Adam and comprised of unfinished songs from the ‘You Want It Darker’ sessions. The album is coloured in by musicians such as Beck, Feist, Damien Rice, Bryce Dessner of The National, Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire and long-time Cohen collaborators Javier Mas and Jennifer Warnes. What is reflected across each of these nine songs is "focused stillness" and "unfiltered thoughts of a man acutely aware he’s in the process of transitioning".