If Brooklyn's Vivian Girls released one of the finest records of 2008, their subsequent follow-ups didn't make as much of an impression, but I felt otherwise about the stripped-down, self-titled debut La Sera released last February on Hardly Art (La Sera = singer/songwriter/Vivian bass player Katy Goodman). To quote Kelly O in this post, "Man, is her voice dreeeem-mee..." Yes. Yes, it is.
Now the label has announced a new full-length, Sees the Light, which the press notes compare to the Shop Assistants, adding that her second album is "more direct, more aggressive; almost a soundtrack to a lost drive-in movie classic."