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As with Awry, My Brightest Diamond's debut Bring Me the Workhorse unites elements of rock, classical, and cabaret, showcasing Worden's skills as a classically-trained vocalist and gifted arranger. Her formal training makes itself known in the range and restraint of her songs: operatic vocals and strings are inherently dramatic, but Worden doesn't overdo them.  Instead, she uses them just enough to make her modern fairy tales even more evocative.  Her shivery singing makes \"Golden Star\" a standout, while the journey from intensity to serenity on \"Something of an End\" and \"The Robin's Jar\" reflect the suite-like movement of many of her songs.  While the influences of Björk, Kate Bush, Jeff Buckley, and - in the case of the languid torch song \"Gone Away\" - Nina Simone, can still be heard very clearly in My Brightest Diamond's music, Worden uses them artfully enough that almost anyone who enjoys those artists will like her work too.  However, Bring Me the Workhorse also shows an impressive range of moods and feelings, ensuring that Worden never sounds derivative.  \"Dragonfly\" has all the warmth and weightlessness of a summer breeze, the aptly-named \"We Were Sparkling\" twinkles like an icicle; and the spooky, late-night rock of \"Freak Out\" adds a witchy edge.  Though the second half of Bring Me the Workhorse doesn't have quite as many memorable songs as the first half does, Worden's way with arrangements, and her sweet-but-powerful voice, make the entire album an eerily beautiful experience. - iTunes\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRelease Date: August 22, 2006\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecord Label: Asthmatic Kitty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUPC: 656605829524\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNumber of Discs: 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"My Brightest Diamond","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":23772119233,"sku":"My Brightest Diamond (1)","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1398\/5745\/products\/600x600bb_332a1fa6-5cc3-4cf3-b405-6b70c1eb031f.jpg?v=1471615971"},{"product_id":"my-brightest-diamond-tear-it-down-cd","title":"Tear It Down CD","description":"While this remix record seems like a premature conceptualization - Shara Worden only has one solo album under the My Brightest Diamond name - it's hard to complain with treatments this tricked out and twisted.  Aside from avoiding the easy route of dropping decent drum breaks under an already astounding singer and letting the beat follow her around like a lost puppy dog, each producer also puts their own personal stamp on the songs.  That can mean anything, really: laptop love songs baked with glitchy beats and bumping breaks (Murcof's \u003cem\u003eDragonfly\u003c\/em\u003e, Alias' \u003cem\u003eGolden Star\u003c\/em\u003e), club cuts that are so crazy they'll make you want to take off your shirt and swing it above your head (both versions of \u003cem\u003eFreak Out\u003c\/em\u003e - one by Gold Chains, another by DJ Kenny Mitchell), and orchestral pop that's brittle and debilitating (Stakka's \u003cem\u003eDisappear\u003c\/em\u003e). All the while, Worden's voice proves to be incredibly versatile, bringing more credibility to the Björk comparisons and making this album My Brightest Diamond's very own Telegram. - iTunes\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRelease Date: March 06, 2007\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRecord Label: Asthmatic Kitty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUPC: 656605603025\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNumber of Discs: 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"My Brightest Diamond","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":23772138305,"sku":"My Brightest Diamond (3)","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1398\/5745\/products\/600x600bb_c223db04-5ae3-41a4-b1b8-469e5706f83f.jpg?v=1471616004"},{"product_id":"my-brightest-diamond-sharks-teeth-cd","title":"A Thousand Shark's Teeth CD","description":"It's not surprising that My Brightest Diamond's second album was originally intended to be a string quartet-based work, or that it was six years in the making.  A Thousand Shark's Teeth is much more orchestrated, polished, and ambitious than Bring Me the Workhorse, and draws even more from Shara Worden's classical training (as well as the work of Maurice Ravel, Tricky, Tom Waits, and painter Anselm Kiefer).  The album's elegant instrumentation and arrangements are nothing if not impressive, whether they're relatively simple, as on \"If I Were Queen,\" which concentrates on Worden's immaculate soprano and pizzicato strings, or lavish, as on \"Inside a Boy,\" where chilly strings and keyboards rise to meet Worden's ice princess vocals.  However, A Thousand Shark's Teeth sacrifices some of the playfulness and energy that made Bring Me the Workhorse so compelling, and at times Worden's ambitions come close to getting the better of her.  \"Apples\"' plinking percussion - which owes as much to Evelyn Glennie as it does to Tom Waits - makes day-to-day chores like folding laundry sound like performance art, and as eerily lovely as \"Black \u0026amp; Coustaud\" is, its frosty cabaret whimsy is so theatrical that it vaguely resembles an avant-garde show tune.  Strangely, despite the album's elaborate scope, at times A Thousand Shark's Teeth is too subtle to make a strong initial impression.  However, when the album does connect - usually when the arrangements and melodies are more direct - the results are stunning.  \"From the Top of the World\" warms up the mostly frosty sonics and resembles a distant, darker cousin of '60s symphonic pop, a feeling echoed by \"To Pluto's Moon,\" which channels John Barry and Portishead into a goth spy theme.  \"Bass Player\"'s smoky sensuality makes it another standout, while \"The Diamond\" and \"Ice \u0026amp; the Storm\" are immediately accessible without compromising the album's lofty themes and sounds.  Big ambition means the potential for an equally big failure, and while that's not the case on A Thousand Shark's Teeth, the album is sometimes too over-thought for its own good.  Arguably, it's more interesting for Worden to bring some of her high art background to a pop context, as she did on Bring Me the Workhorse, than vice versa.  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The music of My Brightest Diamond lends itself well to remixes.  Shara Worden's exquisite voice provides the perfect lead (or backing track) for any sort of deconstructing or restructuring of her original music.  My Brightest Diamond's debut Bring Me the Workhorse (2006) was given the remix treatment in the form of a remix compilation entitled Tear It Down (2007).  This collection is evidence to the strength of her compositions and voice, as remixed by such artists as Murcof, Alias, Lusine, Golden Chains among others. While Asthmatic Kitty and My Brightest Diamond had no regrets about the Tear It Down project, when the time came to talk remixes for A Thousand Shark's Teeth, they both realized a need for a more cohesive and conceptual project. 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Elsewhere, she proves that a more streamlined My Brightest Diamond still has lots of levels and tangents with two wildly different mixes of \"Dreaming Awake.\"  Son Lux's interpretation is dense and beat-driven, giving a claustrophobic edge to lyrics like \"I could stay here always\/Just watching you breathe,\" while Mason Jar Music's version emphasizes the song's intertwining brass, giving the impression of an avant-garde New Orleans jazz funeral (that the album version of \"Dreaming Awake\" is nowhere to be found only adds to the intrigue).  The EP's quieter moments - the wintry ballad \"Dreams Don't Look Like\" and the gentle finale \"That Point When\" - are more like My Brightest Diamond's previous output, but no less lovely for that.  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She also found inspiration in Top 40 hits, and as the None More Than You EP suggested, this unlikely but captivating combination of high art and pop culture delivers some of Worden's most creative and fully realized music. She opts for a restricted - but not restrained - palette of sounds that reflects the album's dualities: rarefied woodwinds, brass, and percussion meet crunching beats, chugging guitars, and surprisingly funky basslines.  Her embrace of pop doesn't diminish her music's complexity; instead, she uses pop's deceptively simple tools and tricks to hone these songs into their purest, most dynamic forms, particularly on This Is My Hand's first half.  The opening salvo \"Pressure\" announces itself with a thundering drum line and crisp choral vocals that give Worden's icy, classically trained voice more heft when she sings \"all this pressure's making diamonds.\"  It's one of My Brightest Diamond's finest, most exciting songs, and its spirit continues on the title track, where swirling woodwinds and claustrophobic drums make the divide (and unity) between body and soul almost tangible. Meanwhile, the ominously sexy \"Lover Killer\" and \"I Am Not the Bad Guy\" explore how love blurs the lines between good and evil as they swing between slinky pop and artier, jazz and classical-informed terrain.  This Is My Hand's second half provides the yin to the beginning's yang, but Worden pulls listeners into the quieter songs just as skillfully as she got their attention with the louder ones. \"Looking at the Sun\" transforms the elements that made \"Pressure\" so vibrant into something somber and implosive; the dreamlike \"So Easy\" makes the most of the album's fire and water imagery; and \"Shape\" even feels a bit meta as it morphs from subdued to forceful.  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However, A Thousand Shark's Teeth sacrifices some of the playfulness and energy that made Bring Me the Workhorse so compelling, and at times Worden's ambitions come close to getting the better of her.  \"Apples\"' plinking percussion - which owes as much to Evelyn Glennie as it does to Tom Waits - makes day-to-day chores like folding laundry sound like performance art, and as eerily lovely as \"Black \u0026amp; Coustaud\" is, its frosty cabaret whimsy is so theatrical that it vaguely resembles an avant-garde show tune.  Strangely, despite the album's elaborate scope, at times A Thousand Shark's Teeth is too subtle to make a strong initial impression.  However, when the album does connect - usually when the arrangements and melodies are more direct - the results are stunning.  \"From the Top of the World\" warms up the mostly frosty sonics and resembles a distant, darker cousin of '60s symphonic pop, a feeling echoed by \"To Pluto's Moon,\" which channels John Barry and Portishead into a goth spy theme.  \"Bass Player\"'s smoky sensuality makes it another standout, while \"The Diamond\" and \"Ice \u0026amp; the Storm\" are immediately accessible without compromising the album's lofty themes and sounds.  Big ambition means the potential for an equally big failure, and while that's not the case on A Thousand Shark's Teeth, the album is sometimes too over-thought for its own good.  Arguably, it's more interesting for Worden to bring some of her high art background to a pop context, as she did on Bring Me the Workhorse, than vice versa.  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