5/11/2023 0 Comments My brightest diamond be brave![]() ![]() Lady Gaga even inspired one chord progression on this latest album. “Be changed, or be undone.” She changed, and it could be the making of her. “Sh-sh-sh-Shara, this is going to hurt,” ran 2011’s Be Brave, which found Worden looking scary in face paint. Up until now, My Brightest Diamond songs have been cerebral and emotive, but lacking in groove – chamber pop about Obama’s inaugural speech, or self-reflexive tracks about fear. There is a vein of female pop with which Worden shares some DNA – the operatic Zola Jesus, Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor – but the last time the UK saw Worden, the singer was in classical mode, performing in Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, at London’s Royal Festival Hall, part of 2013’s The Rest Is Noise festival. ![]() But unlike St Vincent, Worden lacks a grounding in hard rock. You could compare Worden to Annie “St Vincent” Clark, another veteran of Stevens’s marching bands and collaborator of David Byrne’s. ![]() Worden has come to some renown through indie mystic Sufjan Stevens’s family of collaborators her albums are released on his label. This Is My Hand, Worden’s most accessible album by some distance, finds this opera-trained singer embracing the debased idiom of pop. ![]() A worthy addition to the canon of songs about diamonds (via Marilyn Monroe, Liza Minnelli, Kanye West and Rihanna), it is also unlike anything Worden has released before. With the right sync or remix, Pressure could go places. “Disperse the white light!” she commands, and a rave shakedown, not a million miles from the Knife, ensues. ![]()
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