Fresh from crashing into the top 20 of the Billboard US Album chart last week. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are set to release their self-titled UK debut album on August 16th.
Named one of Rolling Stone’s Best New Bands of 2010, the five piece group’s 13 track offering transcends their blues based rock roots.
Showcasing soul-studded grooves and moreish melodies, not to mention front siren and multi-instrumentalist Grace Potter’s way with a whiskey sodden wail, this gang of hard rockin’, hard tourin’ musicians’ first UK album cherry picks from the classic rock of Janis Jopln, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Fleetwood Mac.
Opening with lusty second single (August 15th) ‘Paris (Ooh La La)’ kicks off ‘Grace Potter and the Nocturnals’ with a bang - in more ways than one. Debut UK single, the anthemic ‘Tiny Light’ (June 6) shows off the band’s softer side.
Produced by Mark Batson (Dr. Dre, Eminem, Jay-Z), the album also features ‘Medicine’, a Faces style stomp with hot and bothered Tina Turner-tastic vocals about a black magic woman. ‘Hot Summer Night’ plugs into the same raunchy electric Woodstock jam, while ‘Only Love’ matches it with a sublime Big Brother and the Holding Company swagger.
Cinematic ballad ‘Colors’, which was written straight after President Obama was elected and the sweet shuffle of ‘Low Road’ prove the band can do heartfelt just as well as steamy and a gentler, more Linda Ronstadt influenced side of Grace is shown in the country tinged album closer ‘Things I Never Needed’.
An established act at home in North America, the Vermont based band have already released three records in US while Grace has worked with the Oscar winning musician, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss producer and Coen Brothers collaborator T Bone Burnett.
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are: Grace Potter (vocals/keys), Scott Tournet (lead guitar), Benny Yurco (rhythm guitar), Catherine Popper (bassist) and Matt Burr (drums).
