You may know Sierra Casady from the toy-fi freak-folk duo CocoRosie. It seems that after years of training in classical voice (yeah, like, opera), she grew tired of the restrictions, had a reunion with her estranged sister (though I have it from a good source that they're not actually sisters) Bianca—the other half of CocoRosie—and hit her stride as a musician, putting her music theory and vocal stylings to work in an unlikely genre. The fit was perfect, in my opinion. No need to replay their story, but there's a decent little article at the Observer.

Now Sierra has grown into another side project with friend Mattea Bearn called Metallic Falcon. How to explain it? Sierra calls it "baby metal." Original songs as gentle as lullabies, but colored with a definite heavy metal sheen. I know. I don't get it, but they do, and it works.

They've recorded a short album (unreleased so far), but one of their tracks appears on The Enlightened Family: A Collection of Lost Songs, the forthcoming compilation from Bianca's new label Voodoo Eros Records. Please enjoy: