INCOMING | My Brightest Diamond — ‘All Things Will Unwind’

[Asthmatic Kitty; October 17]

In the three years since her second My Brightest Diamond album, A Thousand Shark’s Teeth, Shara Worden has released an inventive series of remix mini-albums and lent her sublime vocals to all manner of other releases, from the recording of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s Imelda Marcos musical to Sarah Kirkland-Snider’s orchestral epic Penelope, via albums by Clogs, Prefuse 73 and The Decemberists. Oh, and she’s had a baby.

Now she’s back with an album of her own, inspired by her native Detroit, the complexities of race and class differences, atomic particles (the album cover symbolises Worden celebrating neutrinos bursting from the sun), the beginning and the end of time, life, death and, naturally, motherhood. Composed for chamber music ensemble yMusic, it’s said to be more folk-inspired than her recent work, which you can just about hear in preview track, ‘Reaching Through To The Other Side’.

FREE MP3: My Brightest Diamond, ‘Reaching Through To The Other Side’ [via Pitchfork]

Tracklist:
01 We Added It Up
02 Reaching Through To The Other Side
03 In The Beginning
04 Escape Routes
05 Be Brave
06 She Does Not Brave The War
07 Ding Dang
08 There’s A Rat
09 High Low Middle
10 Everything Is In Line
11 I Have Never Loved Someone

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