An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse - The New York Times
Jon Pareles
” Later, as his voice plummeted down to a bass register, he used the voices of women — as angels, consorts, muses, ghosts — to provide melodies around him.
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