Album Review: La Sera Bring You To “Queens” With Bright Rock

My readers know I love inventing terminologies for the entertainment I review. It is my inner sociology major that makes want make up terms for how artists create and categorize their sound. Today, through listening to La Sera’s Queens EP, I have invented a phrase to embody their debuting sound: Bright Rock. 

From Track 1, Queens, La Sera sounds like a giant bag of skittle burst over the earth, and now everyone cannot stop tasting rainbows. A dramatic analogy, I know! Yet, is it not that there songs are candied, it is that they make you feel like a kid that has eaten 12 pounds of chocolates and swedish fish. Their guitar riffs are very reflective of surf rock and 1950s pop in their strums. There will be plenty of times throughout the Queens EP where you can picture yourself dancing on the beach in one-piece, red lipstick, and drinking a soda-pop. Thus, La Sera’s Queens EP is refreshing in that it makes you feel clean and hyped on life, all at once. 

When you look to a lot of mainstream music today, it can be a bit depressing. Heavy traps beats and lyrics on violence, drug usage, and self-destruction are the main themes to several songs on the radio. Thus, the “brightness” of La Sera’s rock is what makes them feel rejuvenating to your spirit. They sound different because they sound kind. Hence, when you are not dancing to songs about The Weeknd’s cocaine-infused love affairs, you can “change it up” and  dance to La Sera’s psychedelic rendition of Led Zepplin’s “Whole Lotta Love”. Lead songstress Katy Goodman drips with the desperate passion original vocalist Robert Plant evoked. For Goodman, love is the drug, and it can make you go mad with addiction. Yet, it is love that is moving you…. not drugs.  Moreover, Goodman’s voice has an ingrained innocence to it. For however sultry she makes her vocals,  you cannot help but hear the clarity of her heart. Thus, although I love the Weekend, I enjoy some lighthearted music, as well.  

La Sera has a natural youthfulness to their image and music presence that makes their Queens EP a must have for those that love to drive around and hear a good song. They are one of the few bands out their that see “good music” can also be “good-hearted”. Although they have their tracks with moody undertones like, “I Really Need An Angel”, they cannot stop approaching life, and this music, with a fresh, whimsical openness. To put it plainly, Queens is an EP for those that want to be happy through sound.