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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.
"Unabashedly slick electro-pop beats juxtaposed with coy, romantically depressed vocals courtesy of star-in-the-making Elizabeth Harper." - (Cover Story) Brooklyn's Sonic Boom - The 40 Songs That Define the Sound -- New York Magazine
Elizabeth Harper is a Class Actress, that being the name of her musical solo-project-cum-band, an electro-pop outfit sonically not to far afield of their Brooklyn neighbors Chairlift. Unlike their peers, however, Class Actress substitute an Apple endorsement for a stack of interesting, well-composed retro new wave, and the exuberant drum-machine beat and Tears for Fears synths on "All the Saints" are tied together with Harper's romantically smoky vocal performance. - PITCHFORK FORKCAST
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
"Class Actress is yet another band from Brooklyn, but they aren't quirky lo-fi garage rock or charming indie pop, so they've got that going for them. "All Saints" is built firmly around a squelchy Italo bass synth and vocalist Elizabeth Harper's aggressively playful performance. Class Actress might reside in the current indie band Mecca, but they sound like citizens, not pilgrims." - PrefixMag
"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
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