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St. Vincent - 100% match to My Brightest Diamond

Lavender Diamond - 71% match to My Brightest Diamond

Fronted by the charismatic Becky Stark (Kensington, Maryland, USA; vocals) this psych-folk ensemble took influence from the classic Laurel Canyon sound of Judee Sill and Joni Mitchell. Named after a role played by Stark in Birdsongs Of The Bauharoque, an operetta written by puppeteer and projectionist Xander Marro, Lavender Diamond grew into a four-piece band following her Read more

PJ Harvey - 67% match to My Brightest Diamond

Polly Jean Harvey, 9 October 1969, Yeovil, Somerset, England. Harvey was the daughter of hippie parents who exposed her to art rock artists such as Captain Beefheart and folk singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan at an early age. After growing up on their farm in Dorset and playing saxophone with an eight-piece instrumental group, she wrote her first songs as part of the Polekat Read more

Tori Amos - 59% match to My Brightest Diamond

Myra Ellen Amos, 22 August 1963, Newton, North Carolina, USA. Singer-songwriter Amos was compared early in her career to everyone from Kate Bush to Joni Mitchell. She began playing the piano aged two-and-a-half, and was enrolled in Baltimore’s elite Peabody Institute as a five-year-old prodigy. Legend has it that she was formally ejected for ‘playing by ear’ t Read more

The Decemberists - 57% match to My Brightest Diamond

The Decemberists emerged in the early 00s, and earned much acclaim for their distinctive brand of sophisticated, folk-tinged indie pop. Formed in Portland, Oregon, USA, by singer-songwriter Colin Meloy (5 October 1974, Helena, Montana, USA), the band’s original line-up also featured Jenny Conlee (accordion/piano), Nate Query (bass), Ezra Holbrook (drums/vocals), and Chr Read more

Laura Veirs - 56% match to My Brightest Diamond

1973, Colorado, USA. Raised in Colorado Springs, art-country singer-songwriter Veirs attended college in rural Minnesota where she studied geology and Chinese and began playing guitar in local punk bands. She moved to Seattle in 1997 after completing college, where she began to explore her renewed passion for folk and country music. Veirs found work as an ESL teacher and a g Read more

Sufjan Stevens - 55% match to My Brightest Diamond

1 July 1975, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Indie pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens built up a cult following in the early years of the twenty-first century with a series of ambitious solo albums informed by his religious faith. Raised in Detroit, Stevens attended music school and college, where he learned to play the oboe, piano, guitar, bass, banjo an Read more

Joanna Newsom - 51% match to My Brightest Diamond

1982, Nevada City, California, USA. One of the more original performers to emerge from the independent music scene in the early years of the twenty-first century, Newsom launched a solo career while concurrently working with the bands Nervous Cop and the Pleased.Raised in Nevada City, California, Newsom’s training began at an early age with piano Read more

Fiona Apple - 50% match to My Brightest Diamond

Fiona Apple Murphy Maggart, 13 September 1977, New York City, New York, USA. Growing up in a dysfunctional New York family, Fiona Apple soon discovered the impetus to articulate frustrations that would eventually result in widespread comparisons to Alanis Morissette for her 1996 debut, Tidal. As a child she was introduced to the Beatles by her stepfather, while her mother ed Read more

Marissa Nadler - 50% match to My Brightest Diamond

5 April 1981, Washington, DC, USA. This gothic folk songstress grew up outside Boston in suburban Massachusetts, and found favour with the serious music press in the build up to the release of Songs III: Bird On The Water, her 2007 collaboration with Greg Weeks of the Philadelphian psych-folk outfit Espers. Fittingly the daughter of a clairvoyant, her spectral ballads held a Read more