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Impeccably dressed, Sufjan-approved, injury-prone Huey Lewis fan Shara Worden will issue her second My Brightest Diamond album, A Thousand Shark's Teeth, June 17 on Asthmatic Kitty. The self-produced disc, recorded in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York City, has been in the works for six years; some of its tunes even pre-date Bring Me the Workhorse, Worden's 2006 MBD debut.

In addition to Worden's formidable piano and guitar work, the set is peppered with vibraphones, French horns, harps, clarinets, marimbas, and even a sample of trip-hop maestro Tricky.

The album's lead single will be opening track "Inside a Boy". Worden and My Brightest Diamond will embark on a tour this spring and summer, though the've only got a few dates lined up at the moment, including a couple of SXSW appearances.

But don't forget: she and the rest of the Asthmatic Kitty family will appear on the label's Encyclopedia Asthmatica DVD, which arrives March 4.

A Thousand Shark's Teeth:

01 Inside a Boy
02 Ice and the Storm
03 If I Were Queen
04 Apples
05 From the Top of the World
06 Black and Costaud
07 To Pluto's Moon
08 Bass Player
09 Goodbye Forever
10 Like a Sieve
11 The Diamond

My Brightest Diamond tour dates:

03-09 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall #
03-12 Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre *
03-13 Austin, TX - Volume (Paste/Stereogum SXSW party)
03-14 Austin, TX - Central Presbyterian Church (Asthmatic Kitty SXSW showcase)
04-02 New York, NY - Joe's Pub (Happy Ending Music and Reading Series) %
05-23 Saratoga, CA - Carriage House Theatre

# with Dayna Kurtz, Mamie Minch
* with Cloud Cult, Kid Dakota
% with Rob Sheffield, Alec Bemis, Daphne Carr
! with Noe Venable