Serafina Steer by The Local Gallery

I wonder if you all know there’s a new harpist-singer in town. London based Serafina Steer has her debut album on after a previous 7″ Static Caravan. Steer’s a classically trained musician from Trinity College and luckily for you she’s more English sounding and more conventional than her American counterpart Joanna Newsom. “Cheap Demo Bad Science” is co-produced by Mike Lindsey of Tunng and it’s an eerie and beautiful experience. Sepia images of Buckingham Palace and the British nobility come to mind, while they make way through historical gardens. Most of the songs on the album are sparsely instrumented almost minimalistic yet when it does it gives an oddly enchanting presence to her voice which takes you out of the normal timeflow. Comparisons to Newsom would be inevitable but her vocal style and frank lyrics reminded me more of The Fiery Furnaces & Final Fantasy.

The beautiful stop motion video for Tiger

Serafina Steer - Tiger
Serafina Steer - Cheap Demo Bad Science