Shara Warden’s vocals have a clarity and velvety lower tones that make her instantly recognizable whether performing as a member of Clogs or My Brightest Diamond. Chamber folk and intimacy mist around past releases but for her latest album This Is My Hand she’s taken a monumental leap in a musical re-evaluation. Taking inspiration from her childhood memories of marching bands she adds horns and percussion to create something all the more tribal in feel and look as witnessed in her latest video for Pressure:
“The genesis of the new album was looking at the changes that have happened in music over my career, and trying to re-evaluate what it meant to me in the first place: ‘what is the value of music’ is essentially the question. In the States, the marching band is something that is done in school, so it still represents something inclusive, something that anyone can learn. I loved the communal quality and the way that drums and horns travel in large three-dimensional spaces.”
Live Dates
28 October – London, Village Underground
29 October – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
30 October – Glasgow, Oran Mor
31 October – Dublin, The Workmans Club
This Is My Hand released 15 September 2014 on Asthmatic Kitty
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