Come Across the River

Come Across the River Artist: Heather Duby
Label: Sonic Boom Recording
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 655173991022
EAN: 0655173991022
ASIN: B0000DZ3DX


Release Date: 2003-11-18

Come Across the River


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Tracks:

  1. Make Me Some Insomnia
  2. Stamped Out
  3. The Rare Vavoom
  4. Your Blue Shoes
  5. Providence
  6. The Big Dwindle
  7. Coin Jar
  8. Three Miles
  9. Auto Immune
  10. Golden Syrup

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Dark and glorious.......2004-06-18

I liked Heather Duby's first album upon first listen. Lovely soprano voice, interesting use of electronica. But it didn't stick, and I can't remember the last time I listened to it. _Come Across the River_, her second solo album, is a giant leap forward. It's less aggressive, more textured, more interesting. Her voice has changed, become deeper, huskier.

The album has a quiet intensity and something a touch Southern about it, in the way that the Cowboy Junkies have. Much of it feels like a dark street on a dark night. I hear it coming from around the corner (or, really, out of my stereo), and it holds me there without letting go. It has wonderful string arrangements, heaviness and lightness in the right places. I don't know how to describe it well; I just know it calls me to listen. The song titles are also wonderfully strange, and they add to the mystery of the album, especially since lyrics aren't included.

5 out of 5 stars long awaited great album.......2004-03-20

I have gone to see the band many times in the last 4 years, and is obvious a lot of hard work went into this album. The songs are beautifully crafted and accompanied by a great cast of musicians. Two thumbs up to the dedicated band and their songwriter/leader Heather Duby. Bo Gilliland's bass playing really adds a distinctive nuance to this album, and is solid and interesting as usual. The vocals are sweet, melodic, ghostly, and internal. This album seems a bit less pop driven than her first debut, maybe more personal. I don't know. Im sure its all personal. Anyway. Glad too see it finally released. A fan from Seattle.

4 out of 5 stars A welcome change of sound from this Seattle musician........2004-03-08

Heather Duby delivers a solid performance in "Come Across the River", which is a welcome departure from the new-age sound of her Sub Pop debut. While the songs that rely solely on piano and vocals are a bit too melodramatic, the more instrumented songs dominate this album, and tunes like "Three Miles" with dual vocal melodies and the support of a full band show her power as a songwriter.

These songs are catchy and fantastic. Definitely an album worth checking out!

5 out of 5 stars A rare vavoom.......2004-01-05

Dear Ms. Duby:

This CD has become one of the most listened to in my collection. It is a perfect balance of ethereality and earthiness, catchiness and sonic exploration, with just the right touches of ornamentation. The lyrics are clever, personal hard-won observations. Your vocals have a husky edge to them, no doubt in part due to your voice-threatening bout of tonsilitus. The new husk in the voice gives your interpretations a gravity, conferred with the Dew of Wisdom. I'll demonstrate:

MAKE ME SOME INSOMNIA flirts with lo-fi indie rock before soaring into icy heights on the bridge. The double-tracked vocal is angelic and sweet. Great line: "To rely on anyone else is like sinking for the fun of it--there's no one, no help."

THE RARE VAVOOM is a midnight cabaret piece, with a startling and effective trumpet solo that sounds almost mariachi-influenced. "Would you break my knees, make me kneel and pray..."

THE BLUE SHOES is a slocore lullaby with a soaring chorus, complete with cricket chirps. "Off to bed, dreamless dead, you cannot keep mocking me..." Summer reminscience, the undercurrent of sweet regret.

PROVIDENCE is catchy enough to be a single. Again, you make regret sound so good. "Never was one to lay blame, til they took her from me."

Your echoey ballads, COIN JAR and AUTO IMMUNE are almost neoclassical in their execution. The phrasing is tentative, heartbreaking, and the lyrics have a self-deprecating air about them, that remind me of Jane Siberry and Suzanne Vega, though not in any way I can put my finger on.

GOLDEN SYRUP is a self-affirmation hymn that ends this song cycle. It's like a piece of '20s ragtime, discreetly updated with words that daringly flirt with the sentimental.

In short, you more than deliver the promise you showed on POST TO WIRE, your excellent debut. ("FOR JEFFREY" helped me tremendously when I lost my father and my aunt within a week of each other).

Special kudos to the song titles--they should make any 4AD afficianado lick their lips. Please keep creating.

Sincerely yours,
Ethereal Lad

5 out of 5 stars

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  2. Submarine ~ Gregg Bissonette
  3. Silver Blood Transmission ~ Tribes of Neurot
  4. The Best Years of Our Lives ~ Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
  5. Tree in Fish ~ Mother Gong
  6. Hot Gossip ~ Sas Jordan
  7. Sens ~ The Evan Anthem
  8. The Forever Changes Concert ~ Love
  9. Evolution ~ The Hollies
  10. Evolution ~ Misha Calvin

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A World Still Turning ~ Ian Shaw

Something Different ~ Dexter Gordon

Man Bites Harmonica ~ Toots Thielemans

Cool Spring ~ Chet Baker

Birth of a Legend ~ Golden Gate Quartet

Jazz: The Best ~ Various Artists

Ragas ~ Ustad Hamid Ali Khan

Sergio Rossoni Grupo ~ Sergio Grupo Rossoni

Live@Skolbeats:04 ~ Anderson Noise

Ensho Hyakuseki V.41 ~ Ensho Sanyutei