Artist: My Brightest Diamond Album: This Is My Hand (2014) When interviewed about the process behind This Is My Hand, Shara Worden’s fourth LP under the My Brightest Diamond moniker, the operatically-trained singer mentioned writing with a vivid image in mind: an “imaginary tribe of people, gathering around a fire, making music together, telling stories, hearing from the shaman.” The energy of community has fed some of Worden’s best work in the past decade. Beginning with the supporting musicians that helped foster her experimental cabaret pop as AwRY in the early aughts and expanding outward to yMusic’s effervescent chamber music orchestrations on MBD’s last full-length, 2011’s All Things Will Unwind, a sense of collaboration has become as essential to the My Brightest Diamond project as Wordens inimitably acrobatic voice. It’s fitting, then, that Worden has turned that mentality into methodology for follow-up This Is My Hand. Self-produced by Worden with support from keyboardist Zac Rae, This Is My Hand is an often successful exercise in percussive, jagged art-pop that explores themes of self-acceptance, sensuality, and community. (from pitchfork (9-15-14)) youtube/watch?v=CePpTXIuQzY
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:38:17 +0000
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