Heather Nova - CD/SD

I never understood why she never did more songs like Frontier.

Tim, you have a way of "here, let me..." grab a puzzle piece out of my hands and place it exactly where it's supposed to be, me having not seen where it goes, staring for hours. The Bark Psychosis comparison is so, so spot on. It's a shame she pretty much dropped off the radar after Oyster/London Rain.

I've been listening to Glow Stars and Blow again recently. They really hold up. Oyster was the last Nova album that really did anything for me. She's still touring and releasing albums I saw - one of those artists that, after the decline of chart/press success, just ploughs on, doing what she does, with a steady fan base by the looks of it. Bless her.

The fanbase isnt that steady by the looks of it, she played 10.000-capacity venues fifteen years ago, now it’s more like 400-800.

Thanks La Bateau.

I am curious as to how/why she moved to that heavy rock sound on some of the tracks on ‘Blow’ only a year after ‘Glowstars’, which is gorgeous and layered and dreamy but never really heavy per se - what was she inspired by? I’m tempted to imagine Throwing Muses and similar.

On ‘Oyster’ the rock production is pretty smoothed out and only “Island’” (I guess “Sugar” too to some extent) really captures what she could have done with that weight and intensity. The way she murmurs, “he’s too scared to hit me now / he’ll bring flowers instead”, and then later on the insane bridge that hissed “a kiss a kick a kiss a kickkkkkk”.

Tim, you're a quality poster. Your tori posts are all time