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HEIDI BERRY Heidi Berry (4AD - Reprise) * * *
Breaking up is hard to brood, at least it is for former art student turned alternative folk singer Heidi Berry.
Poetic, ponderous and personal, Berry spends most of the time on her latest release feeling sorry for herself, singing about being unlucky in love and in life. Looking at the cover of her third full- length album, one would conclude that she fancies herself as a dangerous Venus flytrap. But, after listening to the album, one realizes that she's more of a sentimental weeping willow.
On the lead-off track, "Mercury," Berry's stirring voice evokes tenderness and tragedy simultaneously. With brooding death images of walking through a cold, snow-covered graveyard while being accompanied by hovering black crows and moving shadows, she creates an artsy but not overly bleak interpretation of lost love and loneliness. Her heart-rending voice is shrouded in a dense mix of guitars, organ and a cello that enhances the moodiness.
She treks into the nocturnal world of regret and...