All Things Will Unwind
- My Brightest Diamond
- Band Name: My Brightest Diamond
- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Release Date: Oct 18, 2011
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Dec 7, 201190All Things Will Unwind finds this musical auteur at the top of her game, maturing, pushing her already broad boundaries, and brimming with imagination.
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Nov 10, 201190Worden does "brave the war" and becomes quite the victor on All Things Will Unwind, the third studio release and a wowing conclusion to the trifecta of work she has produced since 2006.
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Oct 13, 201190[A] glorious album, that is full of both gravity and levity, wisdom and beauty, and that is, most of all, infused with the honesty and humanity that make of it such a triumph.
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Nov 21, 201185A series of genre-bending compositions written with New York chamber-music ensemble yMusic that puts [Worden's] full vocal range of on display... a really powerful synergy. [#82, p.59]
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Oct 19, 201182All Things Unwind is a cohesive trek that leaves the listener enraptured by Worden's talent and undeniable magnetism.
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Nov 17, 201180Under the rule of Worden's powerful vocal these sophisticated compositions provide a gripping, melodramatic exploration of a mindset both childlike and brooding.
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Oct 21, 201180This album is a consistent, expansive collection of modestly experimental pop songs (covering familiar aesthetic territory, and exploring broad and intertwining personal/familial, political, theological, and philosophical themes), and well worth repeated listens and eventual internalization.
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Oct 19, 201180Anything is possible. This record is proof.
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Oct 17, 201180Each pinprick or flutter or flourish in Ms. Worden's arrangements manages to feel integral, supporting the songs as well as the singing.
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Oct 13, 201180It's an elegantly lush record, brimming with imagination, that was no doubt slaved over in the studio yet sounds entirely natural.
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Oct 5, 201180The luminous All Things Will Unwind uses strings, brass, marimba, and mellotron, brilliantly showcasing her operatic, slightly scary voice in tricky songs that remain fresh after repeated plays.
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Oct 5, 201180This album sounds more rounded and more complete than her previous releases; the sound of an artist truly ARRIVING and ready to play.
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Oct 7, 201174It's an album both in tune lyrically and out of time stylistically, and that's what has All Things Will Unwind approaching relevance.
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Oct 19, 201170Traversing life with wide-eyed self-awareness isn't always comfortable, but My Brightest Diamond sublimate heartbreak into transcendent beauty.
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Oct 17, 201170This is a big album full of big emotions, and to close out on one of the biggest cements its themes.
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Oct 17, 201170She inevitably succeeds by walking this fine line, a quality that gives her music its own stamp, saving it from the trap of uninspired pastiche.
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Oct 17, 201167It's a heady and abstract album that feels more like it should be studied than enjoyed.
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Oct 19, 201165All Things Will Unwind, both suffers and succeeds in relation to its scope.
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Jan 11, 201260Worden can be preposterously experimental - but she's always intriguing. [Dec. 2011 p.96]
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Oct 18, 201160It's stylistically impressive, but Worden only connects emotionally when she goes for simplicity. [Nov 2011, p.93]
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Oct 19, 201150So while it sounds pleasant throughout, and sometimes awfully beautiful, it won't stick with you as long as it could after the album's final notes fade.
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Oct 17, 201150On All Things Will Unwind, though, the bursts of inspiration in each corner and crevice remain too stiff to merge into anything more than the sum of their parts.