My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth reviews
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| Urb |
 Wow, where did this gem come from? My Brightest Diamond’s second album does more than avoid the sophomore slump, it shines as a modern masterpiece in dramatic orchestral pop. If the fantasy drive behind Bat for Lashes was too much for you, then this is the perfect alternative in female vocal based cinematics. The album begins with a fragile guitar line spiderwebbing gently across a chilly soundscape. Songstress Shara Worden’s siren call boldly rises over zooming guitars and colossal cymbal crashes. By the time the sweeping harmonies of “Ice and the Storm” aurally blossoms, a mere two songs in, it’s easy to shake one’s head in disbelief....full text |
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| Villagevoice |
| Jonathan Meiburg and Shara Worden are the king and queen of fragile rock, from their lyrics (and the way they're delivered) to the eclectic instruments that complement them, including hammered dulcimer, harp, and kalimba. It comes as no surprise, then, that the themes of their respective bands' new albums—Rook, by Meiburg's Okkervil River offshoot Shearwater, and A Thousand Shark's Teeth, by Worden's Sufjan Stevens offshoot My Brightest Diamond—are as fragile as the leg lamp in A Christmas Story....full text |
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| Slantmagazine |
| My first spin of My Brightest Diamond's sophomore effort, A Thousand Shark's Teeth, was accompanied by a Wikipedia binge that focused primarily on the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The album provided an evocative backdrop for my perusal of the details surrounding the ocean liner's doomed maiden voyage, but it wasn't until a second, more attentive listen that I realized how appropriate a soundtrack it was. The album's title comes from the song "Goodbye Lover," in which singer-songwriter Shara Worden likens the risks of love to an agonizing death at sea—specifically, "fear of exposure" and the prickling of "a thousand shark teeth."...full text |
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