We are stars colliding, we crash like lightning into love...

My Brightest Diamond, aka Shara Worden, is the beautiful, dark, indie-opera queen from Sufjan Stevens' label, Asthmatic Kitty. She was trained as an opera diva, but ended up applying her emotive voice to the rock scene. I think her music is impeccable - densely orchestrated, adventurous, moody - I find myself returning to her last album, Bring Me the Workhorse, over and over again. Her new CD, A Thousand Shark's Teeth, came out yesterday, and promises to offer more of MBD's magic.

From A Thousand Shark's Teeth:
My Brightest Diamond ~ Inside a Boy

From Bring Me the Workhorse:
My Brightest Diamond - Something Of An End

And two tracks from the Workhorse remix album, Tear It Down:
My Brightest Diamond - Freakout (Gold Chains Remix)

My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star (Alias Remix)

Visit Shara's website or her Asthmatic Kitty site to find out more.

*sidenote: Currently reading Michael Chabon's book Maps and Legends, and it's very much worth checking out, for his essays on the power of fan fiction alone, or this contemplation of his hometown in Columbia, MD - "Our neighborhood of Longfellow was relatively complete, with fresh-rolled sod lawns and spindly little foal-legged trees, but just beyond its edges my friends and I could ride our bikes clear off the edge of the Known World, into that unexplored blank of bulldozed clay and ribboned stakes where, one day, houses and lives would blossom."