WILLIAMSBURG ON WEDNESDAYS



I came across this band, Class Actress, at the Mercury Lounge NY in December 2009. We decided to go to the venue at East Houston St. to meet up with friends to see The Acrylics. But for me, Elizabeth Harper and the Class Actress was the highlight of the night. They’re a three piece electro pop group from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The signature to the sound is Harper’s sultry, listless voice, paired with vintage synths.

"Hey Elizabeth! Where does the name come from?"

"Hey you too! Well, I just like the double S on the class and the actress".


Class Actress - Someone Real Brooklyn/NY

This is dance music with despondency.


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The video is pure sex. Not in the gratuitous way, but in a claustrophobic, sensual mess of fingers and legs and hair kind of way. Incidentally that's exactly what this entails. A montage of fishnets, tussled hair, lips, necks, and fingers under a red filter. It fits in pretty nicely with the dark, shifting Ratatat-style synths accompanying singer Elizabeth Harper.

Class Actress - Journal of Ardency Brooklyn/NY