La Sera premiered a new (double!) music video today (via Pitchfork TV) for their songs “Real Boy” and “Drive On”. Check it out below:

Sees The Light is out now via Hardly Art.

-Sam McAllister | sam@tandemshoprecords.com

MP3: La Sera - “Break My Heart”

La Sera has a new album, Sees The Light, coming out on March 27th via Hardly Art. Upcoming tour dates below.

03/03 Seattle, WA The Rendezvous *
03/04 Portland, OR Holocene *
03/06 Sacramento, CA Bows and Arrows *
03/07 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop *
03/08 Los Angeles, CA The Satellite *
03/10 San Diego, CA Irenic *
03/11 Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room *
03/12 Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Sol Live *
03/14 - 03/17 Austin, TX SXSW

* = w/ Cold Showers

-Sam McAllister | sam@tandemshoprecords.com

MP3: La Sera - “Please Be My Third Eye”

This Spring, La Sera (aka Katy Goodman of Vivian Girls) will release the follow-up to last year’s self-titled debut record. Entitled Sees The Light, the new record is comprised of ten new tracks (download “Please Be My Third Eye” above) and will be out March 24th via Hardly Art.

Sees The Light tracklist:

Label: Hardly Art
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Buy at your local independent record store or on iTunes

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La Sera, a side project of Vivian Girls’ bassist Katy Goodman, releases their self-titled debut this Tuesday. On it, Goodman turns her Vivian Girls experience inside out, revealing softer and shorter ideas. 

Not a single song on La Sera breaks the three-minute mark and most settle around two minutes long, with the exception of “Lift Off” which clocks in at a remarkably swift one minute and six seconds. The speed at which the songs go by is both welcome and not. They seem to get to a point of conclusion by the time they’ve gotten a minute in, often starting to repeat the same ideas so it feels all right when they end so soon. But at the same time, the short songs leave the listener wondering how Goodman could have built them if she had given it more time. 

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