Mark Richardson, Scott Rosenthal, Elizabeth Harper.
Influences
What we talk about when we talk about love.
Sounds Like
Class Actress is: Guilty Pleasure. NSA dance music. Casual Encounters. Stalker Pop. "Depeche Mode meets early Madonna and Five Star as played on KTU Radio in the leather backseat of a cab". Class Actress is not: Acting Class.
Once the solo project of singer Elizabeth Harper, Class Actress is now a fully-formed band, hustling around Brooklyn's preening, synth-obsessed pop scene like Chairlift's alien-abducted stepsiblings. "Careful What You Say" gets its kicks from ballooning square waves much like the aforementioned trio, only instead of grabbing for the hook they're content to float amongst their own self-created fog. - RCRDLBL
"Harper is a beauty with a voice like a sleepy winter afternoon. Alternately playful and
melancholy, Harper’s songwriting is reminiscent of the Smiths.” – TimeOutNY
“Don't feel conflicted by the singer-songwriter tag in front of Elizabeth Harper's name on any billing. While the tag is accurate, the Brooklyn-based musician is less Tori Amos and more Christina Rosenvinge, or even New Order's Bernand Sumner. Something vaguely Northern English afflicts Ms. Harper's otherwise bubbly music, as if the threat or memory of melancholy is never far away. Ms. Harper effortlessly swings from variations on late 1960s French pop to 1970s California folk-pop, but something mid- 1980s Manchester never feels too far behind her lovely voice.” – New York Sun
“A patch of green, Anglophilic moss thriving in the shade of the monolith that is Brooklyn’s
music scene. With Harper rightfully compared to a female version of the beloved Mozzer, it’s no wonder she was first signed overseas by London’s Angular Records. Impeccable in both presentation (her demo's wax-paper packaging was covered in black-ink calligraphy) and performance, her songs recall Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, and New Order at their most tasteful." – Flavorpill
“We’ve gone on record repeatedly about how much we love Elizabeth Harper, and we stand by our assertion that she’s fronting one of the most promising bands in New York City.” – L
Magazine
"Elizabeth Harper still seems posied to break pretty big, and were puling for it to happen. She's got one of the best voices we've ever heard and her taste in accompaniment is impeccable" - L Magazine
For you I’m only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we’ll need each other. You’ll be the only boy in the world for me. I’ll be the only fox in the world for you…
hello!! firts i want to say that it's amazing your new songs..love it!! can wait for the record in itunes or anyplace to buy it. for when the new record? why you don't come to spain barcelona? i would love see you some day on the stage!!!! all my best wishes
