My Brightest Diamond, the mission of New York singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Nova, has introduced a brand new album. Struggle the Actual Terror, the follow-up to 2018’s A Million and One, is out September 13 by way of Western Vinyl. As we speak’s announcement comes with the discharge of the brand new single ‘Have You Ever Seen an Angel’, which you’ll hear under.
Talking concerning the monitor, Nova stated in an announcement: “‘Have You Ever Seen An Angel’ is a mirrored image on a number of the worst moments in my life, moments of nice loss or shock, and the way at key moments I felt linked to one thing larger than myself, as if I used to be being helped or a sense of not being alone even after I was alone.”
Nova started writing the album precisely one yr in the past, proper after the information of Sinéad O’Connor’s demise broke, and completed the songs on August 13, 2023. The title interpolates O’Connor’s insistence to “battle the actual enemy” throughout her iconic SNL efficiency. “Struggle the Actual Terror is a query about activism, and about analyzing our vulnerabilities,” Nova defined. “I’m not providing solutions however a glimpse into these contemplations. Writing shortly with out orchestration compelled me to be within the second, specializing in construction moderately than frill. I wrote & recorded a music a day in my dwelling studio and moderately than going again over to tweak, Tom Schick & I needed to remain near the unpolished emotion conserving the primary drafts.”
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Struggle the Actual Terror Tracklist:
1. Struggle the Actual Terror
2. Rocket in my Pocket
3. Even Warriors
4. Imaginary Lover
5. Rule Breaker
6. Protected Home
7. Have You Ever Seen An Angel
8. Elegant
9. There’s No Place
10. I Noticed A Glimpse
