Storm

Storm Artist: Heather Nova
Label: Wea International
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 3283451103927
ASIN: B0000AOVTP


Release Date: 2003-12-16

Storm


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Tracks:

  1. Let's Not Talk About Love - Benjamin Biolay, Heather Nova
  2. You Left Me a Song
  3. Drink It In
  4. River of Life
  5. One Day in June
  6. Storm
  7. I Wanna Be Your Light
  8. Aquamarine
  9. All I Need
  10. Everytime
  11. Fool for You

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Album Details

Her Eighth Full Length CD.HEATHER Worked with Mercury Rev this Time Around. They Performed and Produced a More Stripped Down CD this Time Around. Patti Smith Group's Lenny Kaye Produced One Track. Mixed in New York by 'bassy' Bob Brockman, who Previously Worked on Heather Nova's Studio Release, 'south'. French Edition features "Let's Not Talk About Love", a Duet with Benjamin Biolay.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Heather Nova's (quiet) Storm.......2005-10-07

Just for clarification purposes let me say that I have been a Heather Nova fan for a long time. This record is noticeably different from Blow, Oyster, Siren, and South. It's more calm. It's softer. It's gentle. And I must say that it works very well for Heather. It's a beautiful record. I can find no flaw in any of the songs found on this album. I am glad that Heather did what she wanted to do with this album instead of following the lead of a producer and record label execs. While some fans of Heather's earlier music may argue that she has lost her edge, I don't feel the same. If anything it is more daring for Heather to release this record being different from anything she has done before. And the result was quite excellent. So if you are long time Heather Nova fan you may want to listen to some samples before purchasing.

Personal favorites: Fool For You, I Wanna Be Your Light, River of Life

2 out of 5 stars Heather Nova, de-fanged and drained of blood........2003-12-01

Storm doesn't have the sickly doe-eyed pop-isms of Heather Nova's last record South, but it still heads so firmly down the middle of the road that it might as well be painting the divider line. Longtime fans of her Blow and Oyster days will be further disappointed: Heather Nova has completely lost her fiercer instincts and become a full-fledged Lilith Fair crooner.

"Stripped down" is how they described this record, but I call it "de-fanged". The glam-rock influences had been essential to Nova's early works, a way to balance her sometimes New Age-tinged lyrics and imagery. Even in her ballads, early Nova had been able to instill a sense of sexual tension and danger that made her stand out. That vein is closed to her here as on South, and now her ballads sound like just any other guitar-strumming folk singer. There is no single memorable tune here like "Winterblue", "Blood of Me", "Mothertongue", "My Fidelity", "Walk This World", "Truth and Bone" or any of the slew of Nova classics that had formed a stunning songwriting run from 1993 to 1997.

Nova should remember the words of her early artistic influence Neil Young: "The middle of the road bored me, so I headed for the ditch...the ride was rougher but I met more interesting people there." Heather Nova may be too content with her life for the good of her music. The pain and sensuality which had fueled her greatest work is gone. If she keeps this up, she may as well retire rather than continuing to produce work unworthy of her legacy, because Storm could well have been written and recorded by dozens of other artists, utterly homogenized and lifeless.

5 out of 5 stars

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  3. Past to Present 1977-1990 ~ Toto
  4. Big Bear ~ Big Bear
  5. Twelfth Night
  6. Book of Secrets ~ Balance of Power
  7. The Fitzgerald ~ Richmond Fontaine
  8. The String Quartet Tribute to the White Stripes
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