Heather Nova - South

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Music Review: Best CD of 2002
Rating: 5 Stars

Is South likely to be Heather Nova's big break? That's difficult to say with the state of current radio. If radio programmers decide Heather Nova is a welcome change from the manufactured teen pop out there today (you know who you are Vanessa Carlton), she could be allowed to fill the empty airspace left vacant until the release of new albums by fellow adult-pop divas Dido and Sarah McLachlan. Nova might get some help from one of her fellow Lilith alums as "Welcome," South's lead-off track, was co-written with Dido and is the most reminiscent of the dark and brooding sounds from her American debut, Oyster. Some fans who caught onto the Nova wave around that time might be a little disappointed by a new found happiness she seems to have found in her songwriting. Her tales of domestic abuse and sexual obsession have been replaced by the feeling you get "When Somebody Turns You On" and wanting to "Waste The Day" with your lover.

Bermuda-born Nova spent much of her childhood on a boat near her homeland so it's no surprise that water and solar metaphors run rampant throughout her songwriting. The sexual innuendos on "Heaven Sent" rival those on her previous efforts, while "If I Saw You In A Movie" and its glockenspiel accentuations are as sugary sweet and summery as one can get without drowning in a flood of saccharine. Already featured on the Serendipity soundtrack, South's first single "Like Lovers Do" features backing vocals and guitar support from Bryan Adams segueing into "Virus Of The Mind" which rides along talk-sing lyrics and a vocal refrain of "doot doot doo"'s as catchy as a cold in the height of winter. Nova tries her hand at the theremin and trip-pop on "When Somebody Turns You On" as Bernard Butler provides the jangly guitars motivating the self-empowered lyrics of "I'm No Angel." Closing out the disc is Nova's cover of the classic "Gloomy Sunday" and "Just Been Born," South's most sexual song with its panting and lustful lyrics, "and just below the equator I swallowed the pearl ... I dived for your heart." South is a record no lover of pop, summer, or ... love should be without; unfortunately with no tour planned for the US and rumors that V2 has ended their contract with Nova, come the fall South may be as long gone as the birds for winter.

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Alternative Rock CDs

• Music > Styles
• Folk
• Pop
• Rock