Pitchfork

A voice as controlled as Shara Worden's has something in common with Alias' detail-oriented production skills. On this remix, the opening track from My Brightest Diamond's upcoming remix album Tear It Down, Alias inverts that logic. The original track (from last year's Bring Me the Workhorse) had a serviceable beat, but it was the string section-- and, as always, Worden's dynamic voice-- that swept the song forward.

The Alias remix favors complex rhythm (stopwatch ticks, insect wing shuffles) over the song's orchestral swells. When Worden gets to the chorus, she sings, "Everything is suddenly exploding..." and Alias follows along, punctuating her lines with reverberating washes of sound that linger like light trails across a black sky.

MP3: > My Brightest Diamond: "Golden Star (Alias remix)"
[from Tear It Down LP; due 03/06/07 on Asthmatic Kitty] | [PRE-ORDER NOW]