- Human Feel
Oh man, New Order is in town this week—I saw them at last year’s Lollapalooza, and it was legitimately mind-blowing. Too bad for us, that show is sold out. But, there’s still tons of other great stuff to see this week as we close in on Independence Day.
“Since forming My Brightest Diamond in the mid-aughts, Shara Worden has gotten increasingly ambitious, putting her classical training to excellent use in fleet, sophisticated arrangements that wriggle, strut, and float around her crystalline voice. On her previous album, All Things Unwind, Worden worked with yMusic, a malleable New York chamber group that aims to erase the distance between contemporary classical and art-pop,” writes Peter Margasak. “For her forthcoming record, This Is My Hand, she’s given the songs a serious rhythmic jolt—martial drumming opens the record’s first single, ‘Pressure,’ and fuzzed-out postdisco grooves lend heat to ‘Lover Killer.’ The tonal purity and formal precision of Worden’s singing might not seem like the most natural fit for such earthy music, but the contrast is often a source of productive tension.” And it’s free, too!
