Let Me Take You Out

Class Actress - Let Me Take You Out (buy)

Over the past week I've been working, occasionally watching the olympics, and going to Class Actress shows. I've written about the group's singles that preceded Journal of Ardency, but not the whole EP. I didn't think the early-Madonna comparisons were grounded, or compliments until listening through it. Elizabeth Harper's carefree vocals in "Let Me Take You Out" guide you gently through dreamy riffs and beats that remind you of floating over city streets like you did the last time you got some decent sleep. It won't make you sleepy, but it just feels so damn comfortable once you try it on.

The rest of the EP expands the range of Class Actress beyond the dance-pop structures of "Careful What You Say" into longer hooks like "Someone Real," pulling out more developed synth lines than usual dance fare. Like blogger I Hate Kids Like You says, the combination of her sultry voice and 80's synths is pretty much kryptonite to all of man. But why pay $5 a minute to 1-900 numbers when you can pick up the EP for the same price?