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My Brightest Diamond - This Is My Hand

Review by Joseph Rowan

When the ‘less’ is as good as some of the songs in the second half, it’s easy to see why you might want more.»

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'This Is My Hand' began with a question. What is the value of music? My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden was working on an audio-visual collaboration, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Belper's six-hour long cine-opera, River of Fundament, set in the automobile factories of latter-day Detroit. In the film, a high school-style marching band is seen in procession through the streets of Motor City and playing in its vast, echoing factory spaces. This struck a chord in Shara, for whom the new album would be a purposeful readdressing of music-making on the most basic, tribal level. Produced by Shara herself and keyboardist Zac Rae, 'This Is My Hand' is a bold chapter in the unfurling My Brightest Diamond story. Its exploration of music and its rhythmic urgency escort Shara's chamber-music aesthetic out of the chamber and back into the dance hall and rock bar.
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