My Brightest Diamond’s A Thousand Shark’s Teeth spent six years in evolution. Conceived as a voice and string quartet affair, the finished record, released in 2008, spanned sonic and emotional extremes, guitars and orchestration flourishing throughout with Shara Worden’s stunning vocals at the helm. Shark Remixes consists of four EPs, with Alfred Brown, Son Lux, Roberto C. Lange and DM Stith re-conceiving the record.Brown’s re-conception draws on Worden’s initial ideas, taking them to neo-classical realms: inspired by Shara’s numerous references to the heavens, Brown splices vocals from across the album to build a narrative involving an astronaut isolated from communication ”“ his contemplations beaming out into the universe. The result is stunning, shimmering with fear and wonder, bringing instrumentation often buried into the mix back into the light. ‘black!Black!BLACK!’s dramatic forefront fades to sorrow before borrowing ‘Bass Player’s vocal melody. Strings breath into a drone of condensation and harmonium on ‘The Loneliest Man In History’ ”“ as if onto the astronaut’s helmet.Son Lux and Roberto C. Lange’s segments draw more from electronic and funk elements. Son Lux’s ‘Apples’ is dressed with horns and that ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ hit-hat; ‘The Diamond’ reaches Spiritualized levels of gospel equanimity for its brief eighty-eight seconds while ‘Inside A Boy’ is a little saturated with beeps and blips ”“ the only real sore point of the first disc. Lange’s offering starts with a tropical drenching of ‘Apples’ (‘Manzanas’) ”“ though the ephemeral mood strays into the downbeat electronic ”“ ‘Queen’ gradually building a rhythmical surrounding to Worden’s vocals; ‘Ester Pluto’ and ‘The Zircon Prince Edit’ are finely minimal, recalling Hot Chip’s Coming on Strong.Worden’s close collaborator DM Stith’s remixes work unsurprisingly perfectly. David’s unique guitar-work is just as divine as on the criminally underrated Heavy Ghost, and his voice backing Shara’s is even more ethereal. ‘If I Were Queen’ and ‘From The Top Of The World’ comfortably sprawl to eight minutes ”“ the former switching its core backing between guitar and strings with hints of chiming piano, whilst the later is tragically lost as sea, Worden’s refrain “through storms we will sail” looping alongside Stith’s windswept vocals, building to an orchestral jettison, leaving the electronics, a fog-horn saxophone and a pair of howls to save the vessel.The remix treatment of Shark feels rather organic and sublimely cohesive in comparison to MBD’s first album. This deserves to be heard by audiences familiar and new ”“ there are so many ideas to reward repeated listening. It’s an excellent example of just what is possible in remixing.