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An ethereal LP that has levitated and aged beautifully beyond its score-and-a-half positioning could ever suggest. Instead of swimming within the remarkable murk that encapsulated the deepest cuts of the 1994 juggernaut that is “Oyster”, this record instead decides to tame the cataclysmic beast that is recollection, and ultimately diverts Heather Nova’s quintessential rhapsodies into a more romanticized (and far more marketable!) affair. Full of lyrical effervescence and masterful production, “Siren” captures every single drop of love, loss, and occasionally lustful lamentation that epitomizes the introspective subconscious of a very talented songstress, potentially resulting in her most objectively accessible album in full.

4.5/5 stars.