South

Heather Nova - South

South
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Artist: Heather Nova
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Music Label: V2 North America
Soundtracks:
  1. Gloomy Sunday
  2. If I Saw You in the Movie
  3. Talk to Me
  4. Heaven Sent
  5. Help Me be Good to You
  6. Like Lovers Do
  7. Virus of the Mind
  8. It's Only Love
  9. When Somebody Turns You On
  10. Waste the Day
  11. I'm No Angel
  12. Tested
  13. Just Been Born

Music reviews of South

Music Review: Best CD of 2002
Rating: 5 Stars

Heather Nova first burst onto the American music scene with her mid 90's alternative semi-hit "Walk This World." Not since Sophie B. Hawkins and Tori Amos had modern radio heard a performer with such unbridled sexuality pouring out of every note. Her poppier and more accessible 1998 release, Siren, should have brought her the commercial attention she desperately deserved as various tracks from the disc were featured on nearly every WB teen drama and several feature-film trailers. Across the ocean however Nova had already reached the higher echelon of European success as she garnered feature spots on the main stages of countless summer festivals. Along the way Nova released recordings of her first four-track demos and three live albums but without having a true American smash her previous label, Work, dropped her leaving her current disc sitting on the shelf partially completed. In steps V2 Records (Moby, Grandaddy) distributing her newest album, South, late last year in the rest of the world, and finally this summer in North America.

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 Her tales of domestic abuse and sexual obsession have been replaced by the feeling you get "When Somebody Turns You On" and wanting to "Waste The Day" with your lover.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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Description of South

Japanese version of her 2001 album with the bonus track 'Man In The Ocean'.
Possessing a strong, if unspectacular, voice and an adequate melodic sense, Bermuda-born half-Canadian Heather Nova fills her fourth album with a mix of sprightly pop numbers and moodier meditations on love. The former, sadly in the minority, are easily the most engaging songs on South--the swooning opener "If I Saw You in a Movie," the first single "Virus of the Mind," and the teasing "I'm No Angel" (cowritten with ex-London Suede guitarist Bernard Butler) resound long after the last notes of skin-deep lovelorn ruminations like "Talk to Me." It's not that all the songs about uncommunicative lovers and romantic idylls are bad. It's just that by the time Nova's heart opens "like an oyster shell" on South's closing track, the album has fallen victim to the musician's most indulgent singer-songwriter tendencies. Only the Hungarian suicide ballad "Gloomy Sunday," tacked on three tracks before the end, offers any hint Nova might be deeper than she appears in her self-penned tunes. --Shawn Conner

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