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Released (2009-01-20)
Asthmatic Kitty Records

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The music of My Brightest Diamond lends itself well to remixes. Shara Worden's exquisite voice provides the perfect lead (or backing track) for any sort of deconstructing or restructuring of her original music. My Brightest Diamond's debut Bring Me the Workhorse (2006) was given the remix treatment in the form of a remix compilation entitled Tear It Down (2007). This collection is evidence to the strength of her compositions and voice, as remixed by such artists as Murcof, Alias, Lusine, Golden Chains among others. While Asthmatic Kitty and My Brightest Diamond had no regrets about the Tear It Down project, when the time came to talk remixes for A Thousand Shark's Teeth, they both realized a need for a more cohesive and conceptual project. They brought on four remixers (Alfred Brown, DM Stith, Son Lux and Roberto Carlos Lange (Epstein, Savath and Savalas, ROM)) and comissioned them to each create a separate EP of remixed material. The second of these EPs is by Son Lux.

After Asthmatic Kitty asked Lott to remix Thousand Shark's Teeth, the second full-length from My Brightest Diamond, Son Lux restrained himself from hearing any of the songs he remixed until after he was completely finished working, keeping with his custom. "This enables me to glimpse the soul of the song in its parts, rather than its whole," Son Lux says. He then takes the pieces of bone and tissue from the session files and mends them together to create a new thing, stitching in his own pieces and parts, unbiased by an "end result" or preconceived form. The outcome is indeed a collection of new lifeforms, whose souls have withstood Son Lux's process, reincarnated into new living things.

Fortunately for Son Lux, his specimens had good karma. This graceful Dr. Frankenstein approach to the My Brightest Diamond material has created four very distinct remixes, ranging from the old-school electro mashed with New Orleans horn funk treatment of "Apples," elegiac ambient strings overtop minimalist post-rock drumming on "The Diamond," break driven cutup rocker of the anthem "Inside A Boy," to the lowrider chamber piano chopped "To Pluto's Moon." The adventurous stylistic range of each remix is a reflection of the EP as a whole; it is at once many things with Shara Worden's original vocals as the cords holding them all in perfect tension.

Cover art by David Stith (aka DM Stith)