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• Artist: Heather Duby
• Album: Come Across The River
• Label: Sonic Boom
• Year of Release: 2003
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2004-01-23

Heather Duby has been around for a couple of years, with her Sub Pop debut Post To Wire coming out in 1999. After that she did a little experimenting with electronic music achieving mixed results. Now, she has left the folds of Sub Pop for an even more eclectic label called Sonic Boom. Famed indie producer, Steve Fisk takes her under his wing and creates some very interesting soundscapes on Come Across The River. Some tracks like "Your Blue Shoes" are so gentle and peaceful that they come across fragile and waif-like. Her voice has come a long way since Post To Wire, which was only released in 1999. Heather sounds so much more confident in herself now. The arrangements are clever and never overdone. Some tracks even have a Tom Waits feel to them like "The Big Dwindle", sort of jerky and vaudeville like. I think that the best song on this collection is the bleak but hope instilled "Providence". It shows what Duby is capable of. It's my feeling that Heather Duby should knock Beth Orton off of the indie diva pedestal and reign supreme. If you are a fan of female singer/songwriters then you have to find Come Across The River. It is a perfect example of some of the gems that get lost in that big sea of artists in the world.

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