- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Release Date: Oct 18, 2011
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Dec 7, 2011All 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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MagnetNov 21, 2011A 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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Nov 17, 2011Under 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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Nov 10, 2011Worden 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 21, 2011This 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, 2011Traversing life with wide-eyed self-awareness isn't always comfortable, but My Brightest Diamond sublimate heartbreak into transcendent beauty.
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Oct 19, 2011All Things Unwind is a cohesive trek that leaves the listener enraptured by Worden's talent and undeniable magnetism.
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Oct 19, 2011All Things Will Unwind, both suffers and succeeds in relation to its scope.
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Oct 19, 2011Anything is possible. This record is proof.
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Oct 17, 2011Each 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 17, 2011It's a heady and abstract album that feels more like it should be studied than enjoyed.
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Oct 17, 2011This 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, 2011She 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 13, 2011[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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Oct 13, 2011It'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 7, 2011It'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 5, 2011This 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 5, 2011The 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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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Oct 30, 2011