Tear It Down

about this album

My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden has decided to set loose her bobby pins and let her hair fly on the ambient dance floor. Her latest semi-collaboration with 13 different remixers, entitled “Tear It Down”, reworks songs from the highly acclaimed album, “Bring Me The Workhorse” featuring tracks by Alias, Lusine, Murcof, Stakka and Gold Chains. Oh, it’s international too! With diplomatic representatives from Belgium, France, Mexico, The UK and America (East and West Coasts baby!), the remixes range from drum-n-bass, to glitchy ambient, minimalism, and get-your-booty-on-the-dance-floor club music. The wonders of the internet abound and as evidence of the modern times, where being in the same room with someone is no longer necessary for collaboration, the relationships to the remixers vary from being friends, to fans, to MySpace finds. Via the internet, tracks floated through the sky like Willy Wonka’s tv converter and landed in bedrooms and studios with wonderful result. Having crafted songs for five years, meticulously deliberated over string arrangements for two years, flying coast to coast for mixing and recording sessions, and generally laboring over every aspect of “Bring Me The Workhorse”, Shara was ready to hand over the reins and see what the songs could do without any of her guidance. “Tear It Down” stands on it’s own horsie legs. In comparison to Shara’s control in the songs of “Bring Me The Workhorse”, these electronic horsetrainers loosen up the forms and smooth

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