"sings like a female Jeff Buckley - a blend of Tom Waits-inspired weirdness, ambient rock and neo-classical textures" Q Magazine
"Shara Worden served notice of her talent on 2006's extraordinary BRING ME THE WORKHORSE, a record that mapped the Michigan-born musician's journey via opera studies in Texas to New York's classical and avant-rock scenes and Sufjan Steven's band. Its follow-up partly pre-dates Workhorse, and was originally conceived for string quartet. Aptly, and for all that Worden embellishes songs such as The Ice & the Storm with rock drums and guitar, a fragility remains, as if, perhaps unaware, she kept cleaving to minimalism, even as ambition and bigger budgets tempted her towards bigger canvases. The pointilist Apples, the Sondheimesque If I were Queen, the icy, Ravel-indebted Black and Costaud sail at full steam to the wilder shores, heady with intensity and precarious experimentalism. Not for the faint hearted, perhaps, but this is wondrous magical music." 4/5 The Sunday Times
"Here's one of those subtle, eerie wonders that steals up on you unawares... the more I play it, the more I think: 'This could be one of my favourite new albums'. She's an opera-trained chanteuse from Michigan called Sharon Worden, and she sings in a beguiling breathy warble, which veers from rock to folk to torch-song to classical, in a sinuous Bjork-like way." 4/5 The Sunday Telegraph
"Swells of imposing rock opera and haunting vocals that recall Kate Bush at her most windswept make this a vivid, dramatic songcycle. My Brightest Diamond is the vehicle for New Yorker Shara Worden, who adds timeless classicalism to her contemporary musical adventures. Her second album, following 2006's BRING ME THE WORKHORSE, was originally intended for a string quartet but the mix of guitars and drums with a huge array of classical instruments makes for a way more interesting listen. When on ravishing opener, Inside a Boy, Shara sings of 'stars colliding' you can genuinely imagine the world shifting on its axis. Momentous." 4/5 The Sun
"As a piece of work, A Thousand Shark's Teeth, is often wondrous" The Independent on Sunday
