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Feb 15, 2011A few spins of the album will have much the same effect, and after a while you'll find yourself wishing that Goodman would ditch Vivian Girls and do La Sera full-time--especially if she and Hall can keep making records this wonderful.
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Feb 18, 2011La Sera aren't quite up for that challenge, but their debut finds them rising above the careful posturing of their peers and creating something inarguably lovely, which, for now, will do.
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Feb 15, 2011The album is a promising sweet-treat.
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Feb 15, 2011This sort of brevity and emptiness makes the tail end of the album, already short at 26 minutes, feel throwaway and hasty. It's hard not to feel, therefore, that this would have made a much better EP, losing some of the shapeless songs that drag down the momentum and charm of the record.
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Feb 15, 2011This music is more about ambiance, with the luscious haze recalling a mood rather than shaping something distinctive. Has anything ever been so perfectly gorgeous and perfectly inconsequential all at once?
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Mar 14, 2011Her newest solo project, La Sera, replaces distortion with light, beatific girl-group harmonies and clean, sweet production of jangling surf guitars and soft brushes of snare drum.
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Mar 4, 2011In contrast to the garage rock of Vivian Girls and the melodic haze of All Saints Day, La Sera brings Goodman's sense of melody and song to the fore in 12 tracks that often hark back to the days of '60s girl groups and Brill Building song craft.
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Feb 15, 2011La Sera is still a solid collection of lush dream pop that is a trip down memory lane worth taking.
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UncutFeb 15, 2011It's a faintly sparkling, wistful listen, where from her vocal monotone, you wonder if she's mocking those sexually stereotypical longings. Perhaps that's optimistic, but either way, it's satisfying that she's taken a different tack. [Mar 2011, p.98]
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Mar 15, 2011La Sera's debut is the Kate Moss of garage rock, blank-eyed, pretty and dangerously thin.
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Feb 15, 2011If the album format is really dying, then Goodman's got a good shot at cornering the market of 21st-century Shangri-La candy pop, but she should do it two minutes at a time.