Dear Heather (studio album)
by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen bestography
Dear Heather is ranked 16th best out of 27 albums by Leonard Cohen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Leonard Cohen is Songs Of Leonard Cohen which is ranked number 143 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,728.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Dear Heather track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/24/2025 14:40 | cicadelic | 11,423 | 73/100 |
| ! | 10/05/2024 13:14 | RemainInLight | 3,152 | 36/100 |
| ! | 11/25/2023 02:44 | MaxStorm98 | 3,802 | 89/100 |
| ! | 03/06/2023 06:18 |  phantom1305 | 2,812 | 71/100 |
| ! | 11/09/2022 22:46 |  Arthurknight | 9,595 | 72/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.1/100, a mean average of 67.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 67.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.8.
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For me this is Leonard's least interesting album in his entire discography, it still has a few moments worth checking out but overall it feels like more of a stop gap instead of a studio album.
One of the problems here is it doesn't have anything that immediately grabs me although quite a few tracks are reasonably pleasant.
An extremely laid back album. Leonard Cohen's voice is now completely shot, basically he can't sing a note anymore so Anjani Thomas helps out on that score. As for the album itself, dear Heather, is a bit dull. There are no great songs here, but a few are okay. The sexy sounds of opener, go no more a-roving, is nice enough, on that day, deals with the events of 9/11, and, nightingale, is beauty-fill, but there's certainly nothing essential here. It's really a late night lights out record, but it's a bit forgetful.
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