Heather Nova - 300 Days at Sea

Heather Nova - Eighth studio album - and follow up to 2009's acoustic The Jasmine Flower - from the Bermuda native whose assertively sensual songs of angst peaked during the Lilith Fair "empowered female songwriter" wave of the 90's...U.S. fame proved elusive but she found more a more permanent audience in Europe, selling more that two million albums internationally // Release: 300 Days at Sea // Quote: "Those are the really great artists, the ones that dig down deep and aren't afraid to go to that dark side, to go to that side which we really don't want people to see. But that's where the interesting, truthful stuff is..." // Sounds like: after Jasmine Flower's stripped ballads, the fan-funded 300 Days is a welcome return to a full band sound of her shamefully overlooked Redbird album of 2005...recorded at her Bermuda studio with husband/producer Felix Tod at the helm // What we like: two decades in, Nova still knows her way around a great edgy pop hook -- if "Save A Little Piece of Tomorrow" was on the debut of some twenty-something it would be all over the hipster blogosphere...aching vulnerability doesn't get much better than it does on lead single "Higher Ground" (love the chord progression, too)...

Heather Nova - "Higher Ground" (from the album 300 Days at Sea)

Heather Nova - "Save a Little Piece of Tomorrow" (from the album 300 Days at Sea)