Blog: Stereogum

Two years late is better than never. Becky Stark aka Lavendar Diamond joined the likes of Ariel Pink and Giant Drag on Through The Wilderness , an album of Madonna covers benefiting Madge's Raising Malawi charity released the third week of November, 2007. Since then Becky's been touring the world as one of two Diamonds (see also: My Brightest) in the Decemberists' thesaurus-rock extravaganzas, but this recently unveiled video shows us that children in Malawi still need help, and that Becky Stark's smile is an appropriately sparkly foil for animation colored steeped in '80s-styled pastels and [...]