The new album from acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician My Brightest Diamond (aka Shara Worden) will be released September 16 on Asthmatic Kitty Records. This Is My Hand features ten new songs, including the first single “Pressure,” which can be heard below. In addition to the full-length album, a separate five-song EP entitled, None More Than You, will be released July 15.
In celebration of the release, Worden will embark on a worldwide tour this fall, including dates at New York’s Bowery Ballroom and L.A.’s The Roxy as well as an appearance at the 2014 Austin City Limits Music Festival. See below for details.
This Is My Hand was recorded in Berlin, New York, L.A. and Worden’s re-adopted hometown of Detroit with producer Zac Rae. Of her inspiration behind the album, Worden comments, “The genesis of the new album was looking at the changes that have happened in music over my career, and trying to reevaluate what it meant to me in the first place: ‘what is the value of music’ is essentially the question. In the States, the marching band is something that is done in school, so it still represents something inclusive, something that anyone can learn. I loved the communal quality and the way that drums and horns travel in large three-dimensional spaces.”
This is My Hand track-listing:
1. Pressure
2. Before The Words
3. This Is My Hand
4. Lover Killer
5. I am Not the Bad Guy
6. Looking At The Sun
7. Shape
8. So Easy
9. Resonance
10. Apparition
None More Than You EP track-listing:
1. Dreaming Awake
2. Whoever You Are
3. Dreams Don’t Look Like
4. Dreaming Awake
5. That Point When
MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND TOUR DATES
June 28 Bialystok, Poland Poland Halfway Festival
June 30 Chicago, IL Millennium Park – Downtown Sound
July 15 Boulder, CO Chautauqua Auditorium*
July 30-August 3 Becket, MA Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival†
August 8 Haldern, Germany Haldern Pop Festival‡
August 13 Kilkenny, Ireland Kilkenny Arts Festival‡
September 19 Detroit, MI Music Box
September 20 Toronto, ON Drake
September 22 Boston, MA The Sinclair
September 23 Philadelphia, PA World Café Live
September 25 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
October 3-5 Austin, TX Austin City Limits Music Festival
October 10-12 Austin, TX Austin City Limits Music Festival
October 12 Dallas, TX The Kessler
October 17 Stockholm, Sweden Scandic Grand Central
October 18 Gothenburg, Sweden Folkteatern Foajebaren
October 19 Copenhagen, Denmark Loppen
October 21 Hamburg, Germany Knust
October 22 Berlin, Germany Postbahnhof
October 24 Brussels, Belgium Botanique Rotonde
October 25 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso Noord-Tolhuistuin
October 26 Paris, France Bababoum
October 28 London, United Kingdom Village Underground
October 29 Leeds, United Kingdom Brundenell Social Club
October 30 Glasgow, United Kingdom Oran Mor
October 31 Dublin, Ireland Workman’s Club
December 2 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
December 3 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
December 5 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
December 10 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
December 12 Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
December 13 San Diego, CA The Casbah
*Music Mash-up Concert & Party: “Grace, Glamour, and Grit” with Aoife O’Donovan,
Olga Bell and the CMF Orchestra
†“Chalk and Soot” world premiere with Dance Heginbotham and Brooklyn Rider
‡My Brightest Diamond and Death Speaks with Stargaze
