My Brightest Diamond
- HOMETOWN:
- Brooklyn NY
- MYSPACE:
- myspace.com/mybrightestdiamond
- WEB SITE:
- mybrightestdiamond.com
The songs of Shara Worden, the machine behind My Brightest Diamond, distil stories to their most distressing points of contact: a phone call, an injured horse, a dragonfly caught in a spider’s web. She doesn’t share all the information — just the stuff that matters. The effect is a sensational compression of time, in which an entire event is summarized in a single note. This, of course, is the essence of opera. But My Brightest Diamond is much more than that. There is also the humor one might find in an old TV episode of Wonder Woman or Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Shara’s songs reconcile all the complex emotions found in each of us: she can grieve as comfortably as she can laugh, sometimes in the same breath.
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My Brightest Diamond
On the one hand, My Brightest Diamond sounds like an indie band, with its tasteful but precise rhythm section and Worden’s tough, distinct guitar playing. But, throughout, strings take a central role in the composition of the songs; they’re woven into the songs’ fabric, rather than added as decorative post-production flourishes.more at pitchforkmedia.com
10 months ago.