Artist:
My Brightest Diamond
Title:
Discography
Year Of Release:
2006-2018
Label:
Asthmatic Kitty
Genre:
Indie rock, Baroque pop, Chamber folk
Quality:
FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log) / WEB
Total Time: 7:51:38
Total Size: 2.6 GB
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Shara Nova, a classically trained vocalist and self-taught multi-instrumentalist who records dazzling, shapeshifting music as My Brightest Diamond, has always felt like an outsider. Over the course of four groundbreaking albums, she has resisted the conventions of genre, blending elements of rock, art pop, and chamber music into a sound totally her own. While fiercely independent, she like everyone else, still desires connectedness. This tension is at the core of her new album—A Million And One—where she has once again reinvented herself.
Where did it all begin? Shara always knew she wanted to be a musician. She grew up in a family of traveling evangelicals, and together they crisscrossed the country, her father leading church choirs and her mother playing organ. When Shara was a teenager, they settled in a city outside Detroit. It was the early ‘90s, and hip-hop and soul were on the airwaves. Shara listened to everything from Run DMC to Stevie Wonder to Anita Baker and K C & the Sunshine Band. After studying opera, she moved to New York City, where she formed My Brightest Diamond in 2006, releasing her critically acclaimed debut album, Bring Me The Workhorse.
A Million And One sprung from a period of personal transformation for Shara. It comes just four years after her marriage came to an end. (Literally: Nova translates to ‘new’ in Latin.) And was written during a time that Detroit was going through a rebirth of its own. Shara returned to Michigan in 2008 and settled in Detroit, a city whose rich musical legacy—from Motown to the White Stripes—has always been an animating force for her. This time around, she sought to honor the city with music of her own. A Million And One is an homage to the sounds of Detroit, a love letter of sorts, but also a visceral trip backwards in time, to Shara’s formative teen years. “The album examines the quest for my individuality and the search for a deeper relationship to my body, my neighbors, and to the planet,” she says.
Each gem-like song is distinct, from the anthemic opener “It’s Me on the Dance Floor,” to the techno-infused “Supernova,” which calls to mind the work of pioneering Detroit producer Carl Craig. “You Wanna See My Teeth,” is a twisting, searing meditation on the death of Trayvon Martin. The album’s ten tracks represent a departure from the lush instrumentation of My Brightest Diamond’s previous work and into leaner, more raw territory, with beats and synths. Shara produced the album with the help of The Twilite Tone (Common, Gorillaz, Kanye West) and it was mixed by Andrew Scheps (Adele, Lana Del Rey, Beyoncé). Anchoring each song is the relationship between Shara’s vocals and drums from Earl Harvin (Seal, Sam Smith). Reborn free of ornament, Shara’s voice has never been more vulnerable—or more powerful.
Albums:2006 Bring Me the Workhorse CDRip FLAC
2006 Tear It Down CDRip FLAC
2008 A Thousand Shark's Teeth CDRip FLAC
2011 All Things Will Unwind CDRip FLAC
2013 Shark Remixes Volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4 FLAC
2014 This Is My Hand CDRip FLAC
EP & Singles2013 Be Brave - Single FLAC
2013 Disappear FLAC
2013 Inside A Boy FLAC
2014 Lover Killer FLAC
2014 None More Than You FLAC
2014 Pressure FLAC
2015 Ceci Est Ma Main FLAC
2015 I Had Grown Wild FLAC
2015 Right Here With You FLAC
2018 Champagne FLAC
2018 Champagne FR FLAC
2018 It's Me on the Dance Floor FLAC
2006 Bring Me the Workhorse
4:51 | 01/11. My Brightest Diamond - Something of an End
2:56 | 02/11. My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star
4:43 | 03/11. My Brightest Diamond - Gone Away
5:24 | 04/11. My Brightest Diamond - Dragonfly
3:33 | 05/11. My Brightest Diamond - Freak Out
2:43 | 06/11. My Brightest Diamond - We Were Sparkling
4:05 | 07/11. My Brightest Diamond - Disappear
3:21 | 08/11. My Brightest Diamond - The Robin's Jar
5:26 | 09/11. My Brightest Diamond - Magic Rabbit
4:16 | 10/11. My Brightest Diamond - The Good & the Bad Guy
4:44 | 11/11. My Brightest Diamond - Workhorse
2006 Tear It Down
3:20 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star (Alias)
4:35 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - Workhorse (Lusine)
5:47 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - Freak Out (Gold Chains Panique mix)
4:05 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - Disappear (Stakka)
5:56 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - Dragonfly (Murcof)
5:24 | 06. My Brightest Diamond - Magic Rabbit (Alfred Brown)
7:11 | 07. My Brightest Diamond - Freak Out (DJ Kenny Mitchell Rewind 93 Remix featurung nimnomadic)
3:10 | 08. My Brightest Diamond - We Were Sparkling (Haruki)
6:04 | 09. My Brightest Diamond - Something of an End (David Keith - NC47)
5:46 | 10. My Brightest Diamond - Gone Away (David Michael Stith)
6:42 | 11. My Brightest Diamond - The Good and the Bad Guy (Siamese Sisters)
3:42 | 12. My Brightest Diamond - Gone Away (Strings of Consciousness)
6:17 | 13. My Brightest Diamond - Disappear (Wheat to Whiskey mix by Cedar AV)
2008 A Thousand Shark's Teeth
3:44 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Inside a Boy
5:23 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - The Ice & the Storm
2:38 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - If I Were Queen
2:28 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - Apples
4:03 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - From the Top of the World
4:22 | 06. My Brightest Diamond - Black & Costaud
6:49 | 07. My Brightest Diamond - To Pluto's Moon
4:33 | 08. My Brightest Diamond - Bass Player
3:53 | 09. My Brightest Diamond - Goodbye Forever
3:04 | 10. My Brightest Diamond - Like a Sieve
5:12 | 11. My Brightest Diamond - The Diamond
2011 All Things Will Unwind
4:05 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - We Added It Up
3:42 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - Reaching Through to the Other Side
4:20 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - In the Beginning
3:28 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - Escape Routes
4:17 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - Be Brave
4:05 | 06. My Brightest Diamond - She Does Not Brave the War (but She Saves the Day)
2:31 | 07. My Brightest Diamond - Ding Dang
4:09 | 08. My Brightest Diamond - There's a Rat
3:34 | 09. My Brightest Diamond - High Low Middle
4:32 | 10. My Brightest Diamond - Everything is in Line
3:39 | 11. My Brightest Diamond - I Have Never Loved Someone the Way I Love You
2013-02-14 Shark Remixes, Vol 3: Roberto Carlos Lange
3:59 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Manzanas
3:58 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - Queen
3:42 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - Estar Pluto
2:55 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - The Zircon Price Edit
1:15 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - Brightest Outro
2013-02-14 Shark Remixes, Vol 4: DM Stith
8:30 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - If I Were Queen (DM Stith Remix)
2:46 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
5:41 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - Ice & The Storm (DM Stith Remix)
8:09 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - From The Top Of The World (DM Stith Remix)
3:19 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2013-02-14 Shark Remixes, Vol. 1: Alfred Brown
2:38 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Overture
3:14 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Stars Against a Dark Sky
2:41 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - In Vacuum
2:51 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - black!Black!BLACK!
4:45 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - Of Fear and Wonder (I Found a Universe)
2:05 | 06. My Brightest Diamond - I'm Never Letting Go (Stars At Elbow and Foot)
4:10 | 07. My Brightest Diamond - The Loneliest Man In History (Looking Down from the Top of the World)
1:48 | 08. My Brightest Diamond - You Are Now Untouchable (Esto Perpetue)
2013-02-14 Shark Remixes, Vol. 2: Son Lux
5:52 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Apples (Son Lux Remix)
5:33 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - The Diamond (Son Lux Remix)
5:50 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - Inside a Boy (Son Lux Remix)
5:11 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - To Pluto's Moon (Son Lux Remix)
2014 This Is My Hand
3:58 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Pressure
3:27 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - Before the Words
3:45 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - This Is My Hand
3:59 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - Lover Killer
5:11 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - I Am Not the Bad Guy
3:44 | 06. My Brightest Diamond - Looking At the Sun
4:28 | 07. My Brightest Diamond - Shape
4:08 | 08. My Brightest Diamond - So Easy
4:24 | 09. My Brightest Diamond - Resonance
3:54 | 10. My Brightest Diamond - Apparition
2013-02-14 Be Brave - Single
4:17 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Be Brave
4:23 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - Be Brave (Prefuse 73 Remix)
4:12 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - Be Brave (Alternate Version with Son Lux)
2013-02-15 Disappear
4:07 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Disappear (LP Version)
2:19 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - The Lace Handkerchief
3:47 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - Disappear (String Quartet Version)
4:07 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - Disappear (Remix By Stakka)
6:12 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - Disappear (Remix By James McAlister)
2013-02-14 Inside A Boy
3:46 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Inside a Boy (album version)
3:10 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - I Had a Pearl
3:33 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - Black and Costaud- Tim Fite redux
5:47 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - Inside a Boy- Son Lux remix
2014-08-15 Lover Killer
3:59 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Lover Killer
2014-07-15 None More Than You
4:31 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Dreaming Awake (Son Lux Mix)
3:34 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - Whoever You Are
2:25 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - Dreams Don't Look Alike
4:42 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - Dreaming Awake (Mason Jar Mix)
2:24 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - That Point When
2014-08-05 Pressure
3:57 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Pressure
2015-04-22 Ceci Est Ma Main
3:51 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Ceci Est Ma Main
3:30 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - This Is My Hand (Groundlift Remix)
2015-05-19 I Had Grown Wild
3:53 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Ceci Est Ma Main (Groundlift Remix)
3:24 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - Say What
3:01 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - Bronze Head
5:47 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - Apparition
3:30 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - This Is My Hand (Groundlift Remix)
3:47 | 06. My Brightest Diamond - Lover Killer (The Hood Internet Remix)
2015-12-07 Right Here With You
3:24 | 01. My Brightest Diamond, Ben Arthur, DJ Big Wiz - Right Here With You
2018 Champagne
3:26 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Champagne
3:05 | 02. My Brightest Diamond - A Million Pearls
6:59 | 03. My Brightest Diamond - Champagne (Monty Luke Update)
3:27 | 04. My Brightest Diamond - Champagne Fr
3:32 | 05. My Brightest Diamond - Champagne (Valley Hush Remix)
2018-04-06 Champagne FR
3:27 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - Champagne FR
2018-10-19 It's Me on the Dance Floor
4:00 | 01. My Brightest Diamond - It's Me on the Dance Floor