''Dear Heather'' is Leonard Cohen's eleventh studio album, released in 2004.

It shows a further departure from ''Ten New Songs'', with more female lead singing and a marked increase in read poetry over sung lyrics, two of these being poems by other writers.

The album was set to appear under the title ''Old Ideas'', but Cohen changed the title as he was assured it would mislead people to believe that it was a compilation or Best Of. Again, Cohen recorded it digitally in his and Sharon Robinson's home studios in Los Angeles, as he did with his previous album, ''Ten New Songs''..

The album reached #131 on the Billboard 200 and Internet Album charts and #5 on the Canadian Album charts. It was Cohen's highest charting album in America since 1969's ''Songs from a Room''. - Wikipedia