My Brightest Diamond and Jo Gabriel

[Craig Gidney]

My Brightest Diamond, A Thousand Shark s Teeth Dark rock with cabaret and
symphonic influences and the beautiful voice of
singer-songwriter-instrumentalist Shara Worden. Her compositions are complex
as anything Rufus Wainwright or mid period Joni Mitchell put out, and her
voice is powerful and rich, with a rarely utilized awesome operatic high end.
Love love love.

Jo Gabriel, Fools and Orphans. Delicate piano pop like
Tori or Kate, but her playing has an ambient edge her piano playing has been
compared to Harold Budd. Her voice is high and quavery and a bit of an
acquired taste, like the Cranes singer Alison Shaw. There are some lovely
pieces her. This is the artist s version. A different, more 4AD sounding
release will come later in the year. Nice touches of violins and horns. The
lyrics are poetic but the way she sings them, they border on
incomprehensibility.
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