{"id":48128,"date":"2019-03-23T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=48128"},"modified":"2019-03-23T13:31:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:31:26","slug":"kristen-lee-sergeant-balm-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/03\/kristen-lee-sergeant-balm-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Lee Sergeant -&#8216;Balm\/Burn&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kristen Lee Sergeant is a jazz vocalist who always seems to be singing about fire. Even her website greets the visitor with a curl of animated smoke, and her album, which contains a brilliant cover of &#8216;Smoke Gets In Your Eyes&#8217;, is entitled, &#8216;Smolder&#8217;. Her latest self-penned single, &#8216;Balm\/Burn&#8217;, also uses the metaphor of the flame &#8211; as well as the salve to heal it &#8211; to take a closer look at a rocky romantic relationship.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sergeant&#8217;s star has been on the rise since the release of her debut album, &#8216;Inside Out&#8217;, back in 2016. It introduced her as a quick-thinking, witty jazz singer, with an ability to pull out complexity and nuance from otherwise seemingly unflinching standards and pop tracks. &#8216;Smolder&#8217; is deeper, brighter, and wiser, and sees Kristen show herself to be a visionary in her own right. The album contains both her own original tracks, and reworked classics such as a jazz version of Spandau Ballet&#8217;s, &#8216;True&#8217;. There are also ventures into chamber music, a classic torch song, and Latin rhythms. It&#8217;s Sergeant&#8217;s voice which holds it all together.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The video for &#8216;Balm\/Burn&#8217; was directed by young filmmaker, <a href=\"https:\/\/katherinehorak.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katherine Horak<\/a>, who has already won an audience for her work with the films, &#8216;Home&#8217;, and &#8216;What We Were&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Initially &#8216;Balm\/Burn&#8217; seems quite straightforward &#8211; the camera capture&#8217;s Kristen&#8217;s performance, which is focused and sultry. Midway through the video, she is confronted by a replica of herself, opening up to a number of questions about the purpose and what it means. The doppelganger vanishes, and the camera pans back to Sergeant, singing once again. It&#8217;s an interesting clip and Sergeant&#8217;s vocals are absolutely sublime.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re as enraptured as we are by Kristen Lee Sergeant, you&#8217;ll want to visit her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristenleesergeant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>. Watch &#8216;Balm\/Burn&#8217; below:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFWNF7ukw1c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Lee Sergeant is a jazz vocalist who always seems to be singing about fire. Even her website greets the visitor with a curl of animated smoke, and her album, which contains a brilliant cover of &#8216;Smoke Gets In Your Eyes&#8217;, is entitled, &#8216;Smolder&#8217;. Her latest self-penned single, &#8216;Balm\/Burn&#8217;, also uses the metaphor of the flame &#8211; as well as the salve to heal it &#8211; to take a closer look at a rocky romantic relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,640],"tags":[111,20151,1356,20150,144,77,370,1945,20152],"class_list":["post-48128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-album","tag-balm-burn","tag-jazz","tag-kristen-lee-sergeant","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-new-video","tag-smolder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-cwg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":77243,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/08\/irish-duo-telefis-release-space-is-us-single-featuring-sean-ohagan\/","url_meta":{"origin":48128,"position":0},"title":"THE FINAL FRONTIER &#8211; Irish duo Telefis Release &#8216;Space Is Us&#8217; Single, Featuring Sean O&#8217;Hagan","author":"Matt Catchpole","date":"12\/08\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Space Is Us, one of the last pieces of music to feature Irish iconoclast Cathal Coughlan, is out now on all digital platforms via Dimple Discs. 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