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AMERICAN-BORN and British-domiciled, Heidi Berry's many boosters laud her "best kept secret" status and cite her label credentials as proof that she is the great overlooked voice of acoustic rock. Spin through this retrospective of her 15-year recording career and it's hard to argue. Launched on Creation Records in the mid-1980s she found her spiritual home at 4AD, alongside Lisa Gerrard and Kristin Hersh and the bulk of the work comes from the early 1990s. Oddly though, Pomegranate's strongest song is the only Creation inclusion, the mournful North Shore Train, which first featured on the 1987 Creation sampler Doing It For The Kids. Seven minutes long, it stretches Berry's folksy vocals between tearful piano and dolorous strings and describes an autumnal New England train journey from Salem to New York. Perfection.