Daiana Feuer on December 2nd, 2015

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A new La Sera album is on its way, titled “Music For Listening To Music To,”‘ due March 4 via Polyvinyl Records. It’s the result of some sweet new developments in the life of Katy Goodman. For her fourth album since departing from Vivian Girls, La Sera has become a duo — Goodman cowrote the songs with guitarist/new husband Todd Wisenbaker. As first single “High Notes” demonstrates, this time around it’s all about her voice and the jangliest of jangly guitar, with a driving backbeat moving things along. This scaled-back construction carries across the whole live-recorded analog album, 10 songs about “good love, bad love, dead men, and confused kids.”

Looking at her output, from 2011’s self-titled bedroom pop debut to 2012’s “Sees The Light” and 2014’s punky “Hour Of The Dawn,” Goodman wasn’t sure what she wanted to do next with her music. Then one night she and Wisenbaker, who joined La Sera in 2012 after touring with Jenny and Johnny and produced “Hour of the Dawn,” did something unprecedented, for them, they wrote a song together, “One True Love.” Goodman was inspired and the other nine tunes flourished between the lovers. Ryan Adams came on to produce the week-long recording session spent at PAX-AM studio with drummer Nate Lotz, and Adams plays here and there throughout. As a result of this mighty meeting of music minds, Adams and Wisenbaker formed a band of their own as well, resulting in an album of Taylor Swift covers, “1989,” which is as odd as it is adorable. Perhaps they just have a thing for tall girls.

||| Stream: “High Notes”