Jennifer Warnes is Cohen's vocal sidekick on this beautifully produced and typically ruminative album—initially rejected by his record label—that attempted to contemporize him with occasional Casio beats and a country tinge. Johnny Cash, whose lonely basso profundo Cohen approaches, could easily have gone to town with "Heart with No Companion." The cabaret-like "Dance Me to the End of Love" became Cohen's perennial concert opener, and everybody knows what became of "Hallelujah."