My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Sharks Teeth

TRACKLISTING: 1 Inside A Boy, 2 Ice And The Storm, 3 If I Were Queen, 4 Apples, 5 From The Top Of The World,
6 Black And Costaud, 7 To Pluto's Moon, 8 Bass Player, 9 Goodbye Forever, 10 Like A Sieve, 11 The Diamond,

OVERVIEW: Shara Worden is My Brightest Diamond. Picking up an opera degree at the University of North Texas, Shara immersed herself in the songs of Purcell and Debussy. After college, she moved to New York City to simultaneously continue her opera studies and pursue her songwriting ambitions. Shara met Sufjan Stevens at The Medicine Show, a variety show hosted by New York City's incendiary poet, Sage, at Arlene's Grocery. This, in turn, led to a sabbatical from her work, doing splits and round-offs (not to mention the human pyramid) as one of the notorious Illinoisemakers. Shara was quickly promoted as cheerleading captain. Charming, playful, daring, foreboding, graceful, eclectic, exciting and visceral: these are all words that come to mind after a full listen through A Thousand Shark's Teeth. Originally meant to be a more classical, string quartet affair, the work slowly evolved and refined itself over a period of six years. The record, which was mixed by Husky Höskulds (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello), was recorded in Berlin, Los Angeles and New York City, and features twenty different players all contributing little bits of musical magic. A Thousand Shark's Teeth is a musical snow globe that sparkles each time you touch it. The songs, whose themes broach intimacy, kisses by moonlight, laundry, lost friendship and more, marry vast instrumentation – marimbas, harps, clarinets, French horns, rabid guitars, vibraphones to name a few – to create an unequalled amalgamation of style and colour. In simple terms: it's beautiful, and there's nothing else quite like it. For fans of Feist, Joanna Newsome, Portishead.

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