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Grace Potter - Daylight (25/10/19)

October 07, 2019  /  Gary Smith

Artist: Grace Potter

Release Date: 25th October, 2019

Genre: Blues, Soul, Rock

Record Label: Hollywood Records/ Fantasy Records

Tracks: 11

Website: https://www.gracepotter.com


The very talented Vermont born but LA based Grace Potter has had a very eventful few years. After dissolving her long-time band the Nocturnals, she released a more pop solo album ‘Midnight’, in 2015. Shortly after that, she divorced her husband and Nocturnals drummer, Matt Burr, and began a new relationship with ‘Midnight’ producer Eric Valentine. Grace and Eric had their first child in 2018. All of these events serve as the background for the songs on her new album ‘Daylight’.

But by the end of 2017, Grace began to feel the call of the studio and soon started laying down tracks in the Topanga Canyon home she’d recently settled into with her husband, ‘Midnight’ producer Eric Valentine. Unsigned and entirely free of any pressure to appease, Grace slowly carved out the songs that now make up ‘Daylight’: an album that emerges as her most emotionally revealing, musically daring, and exactingly realized body of work to date. “When I finally started writing songs again - I did it for me.”

Grace’s seventh full-length and first release for Fantasy Records, ‘Daylight’ mostly came to life through a series of live-to-tape sessions at Valentine’s Hollywood studio, Barefoot Recording. Along with capturing the undeniable vocal power Grace’s previously shown in sharing the stage with The Rolling Stones, Robert Plant, and Neil Young, the album unfolds with an irresistibly vital sound birthed with the help of guests like Benmont Tench and Lucius. “Having all these incredible musicians playing live in the room with me gave the recording an urgency—like, this matters right now,” Grace recalls.

‘Daylight’ sees Grace moving away from the sound of her former band. Highlights include the stunning ‘Release’ a slow piano ballad driven by a beautiful vocal performance. The bare and personal, reflective and raw lyric mines the very depth of her soul. It's charts a broken relationship and serves as a watershed moment not only for this album but probably for the rest of her career. It feels like the ending of one important chapter and the start of the next chapter begins with the second half of ‘Daylight’.

After the wonderful "Release", Grace continue with a group of songs that directly address her breakup. These have the most honest and open lyrics. They are accompanied by perfect musical compositions that is reminiscent of her earlier Nocturnals work. This is the style that really suits her stunning and powerful voice. The second half of the album also features three more fantastic appearances by Lucius (‘Repossession’, ‘Desire’ and ‘Please’) adding to of my favourites on the album the powerful soul/blues future classic ‘Back To Me’.

Grace Potter has been on the threshold of great things and a massive breakthrough for many years. The release of ‘Daylight’ is definitely an important and giant step on that journey.

A beautiful and high quality album full of raw emotion and heart & soul. Highly recommended.

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categories / Blues, Soul, Rock, RnB, Gospel
tags / Grace Potter, Daylight, LCM Album 2019, Oct 2019

Beth Hart - War In My Mind (27/09/19)

September 03, 2019  /  Gary Smith

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  • Artist: Beth Hart

  • Release Date: 27th September, 2019

  • Genre: Blues, Rock

  • Record Label: Mascot Label Group/Provogue

  • Tracks: 12

  • Website: https://www.bethhart.com

The excellent new album from LA based Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Beth Hart. It’s full of power, passion and heart.

Beth Hart is as real as it gets. At a time when other musicians polish their songs, airbrush their image, conceal their blemishes, deny their age and bury their darkest secrets, this is one artist who throws down her cards and invites you to either walk or love her anyway. And with, 'War In My Mind', this Grammy-nominated talent has never served herself up so raw, on a record that embraces her merits and flaws, channels her bittersweet headspace and spins gold from her demons.

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categories / Blues, Rock
tags / Beth Hart, War In My Mind, LCM Album 2019, Sept 2019

Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (17/05/19)

July 28, 2019  /  Gary Smith

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  • Artist: Lewis Capaldi

  • Release Date: 17th May, 2019

  • Genre: Rock, Pop, Singer-Songwriter

  • Record Label: Virgin

  • Tracks: 12

  • Website:

2018 was a truly remarkable year for budding Scottish artist Lewis Capaldi, going from years of playing in local pubs around Scotland to selling 75,000 headline show tickets on 3 sold out back-to-back headline tours and being handpicked to support Sam Smith, Bastille, Rag’n’ Bone Man & Niall Horan. He quickly amassed 300 million plays on his 9 released tracks across streaming services & eventually entered the top 40 with Grace, featuring an unforgettable video of Lewis and some topless men! Critical support also came in it’s droves as he was shortlisted for the BRITs Critic’s Choice award, longlisted for BBC’s Sound of 2018 and added to Radio 1’s covetable Brit List.

2019 looks set to catapult him into the stratosphere with the announce of his long-anticipated debut album ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’ following Someone You Loved becoming his first ever top 10 single, and Grace and Bruises also in the Top 100 UK Singles Chart. He has won over swarms of fans with his trademark down-to-earth sense of humour juxtaposed with his sincere, heartwrenching vocal.

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categories / Rock, Pop, Singer-Songwriter
tags / Lewis Capaldi, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, LCM, LCM Album 2019, May 2019

Sheryl Crow - Threads (30/08/19)

June 27, 2019  /  Gary Smith

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Artist: Sheryl Crow

Release Date: 30th August, 2019

Genre: Rock, Pop

Record Label: Big Machine Records

Tracks: 17

Website: https://sherylcrow.com

Nine-time GRAMMY Award-winner Sheryl Crow’s forthcoming album of collaborations, ‘THREADS’ is set for release on August 30th via The Valory Music Co. Sheryl comments “’Still The Good Old Days’ totally captures what Joe and I believe about getting older…that life is still fun no matter what stage of life you are at, and that living isn’t just for the young.”

Other advance tracks already setting the pace for this diverse collection include “Redemption Day” featuring Johnny Cash, “Live Wire” featuring Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples and “Prove You Wrong” featuring Stevie Nicks and Maren Morris.

Further elaborating on the project, Sheryl reflected, “I became inspired to record an album of musical experiences with the legacy artists who inspired me to want to be a great songwriter, musician, and producer. It is a celebration with them, and a tribute to them. Just as importantly, I wanted to work with younger artists on this record, who I believe will pick up the torch and continue to light the way for humanity with their stories and their songs for many years to come. Their music inspires me every day.”

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categories / Rock, Pop
tags / Sheryl Crow, Threads, LCM Album 2019, Aug 2019

Flight Of The Conchords - Live In London (08/03/19)

January 29, 2019  /  Gary Smith

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  • Artist: Flight Of The Conchords

  • Release Date: 8th March, 2019

  • Genre: Folk, Pop, Comedy

  • Record Label: Sub Pop

  • Tracks: 22

  • Website:

In October of 2018, ten years after the launch of their hit HBO series, musical comedians Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement returned to HBO for the all-new comedy special. Live in London was taped before a live audience at the Eventim Apollo and featured the Conchords performing songs from the sold-out UK and Ireland edition of "Flight of the Conchords Sing Flight of the Conchords Tour." New Zealanders McKenzie and Clement debuted on HBO in 2005 in an edition of the comedy series "One-Night Stand," returning to the network in 2007 for the debut season of their acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series "Flight of the Conchords," which followed fictionalized versions of their lives in New York City. The duo also signed a worldwide deal with Sub Pop Records for their recorded music, going on to release the Grammy-winning EP, The Distant Future in 2007, followed by two full-length albums - their self-titled debut in 2008, and I Told You I Was Freaky in 2009.

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categories / Folk, Rock, Pop, Comedy
tags / Flight Of The Conchords, Live In London, LCM Album 2019, Mar 2019

Hozier - Wasteland, Baby! (01/03/19)

January 18, 2019  /  Gary Smith

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  • Artist: Hozier

  • Release Date: 1st March, 2019

  • Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Pop, Rock

  • Record Label: Island

  • Tracks: 14

  • Website

Multi-platinum singer songwriter Hozier will release new album, Wasteland, Baby! March 1st on Island Records.

Hozier first rose to prominence following the release of his globally successful, triple platinum single Take Me To Church. The track was nominated for Song Of The Year at the 2015 Grammy Awards, won Song Of The Year at the 2015 Ivor Novello Awards, won Song Of The Year at the 2015 BBC Music Awards and won Top Rock Song at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, where Hozier also wonTop Rock Artist. Take Me To Church has sold 2.23 million copies in the UK to date. Hozier also saw great success with Someone New, which went gold and Cherry Wine and From Eden both being certified silver

Wasteland, Baby! is the follow up to Hoziers critically acclaimed self titled debut album, which has now amassed over 2.5 billion streams while his total and the album has sold over 850 thousand copies in the UK, going platinum in the process, while the record has sold 4 million copies worldwide. Hozier received a nomination for Best International Male; at the 2015 Brit Awards.

The album follows Hoziers recent Nina Cried Power EP. The EP, which features Multi-Grammy award winning artist and performer Mavis Staples and instrumentation by renowned Grammy Life Time Achievement Award recipient Booker T. Jones, has been streamed over 26 million times since its release in September last year. The title track of the EP also opens Wasteland, Baby! and has already proved incredibly successful for Hozier. Barack Obama included the song in his favourite songs of 2018 playlist;

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categories / Singer-Songwriter, Rock, Pop
tags / Hozier, Wasteland Baby!, LCM Album 2019, Mar 2019

Signs - Tedeschi Trucks Band (15/02/19)

January 10, 2019  /  Gary Smith

  • Artist: Tedeschi Trucks Band

  • Release Date: 15th February, 2019

  • Genre: Rock, Blues

  • Record Label: Fantasy Records

  • Tracks: 11

  • Website:

On February 15, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Fantasy Records will release ‘SIGNS’, their 4th studio album and a new high-water mark in their recording career. With 11 originals penned by the band and a few dear friends, produced by Derek Trucks, Jim Scott and Bobby Tis and meticulously recorded to two-inch analogue tape for the first time, SIGNS reflects on the losses suffered by the band in the past few years while still finding cause for hope and celebration in the beauty of life and nature.

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categories / Rock, Blues
tags / Tedeschi Trucks Band, Signs, LCM Album 2019, Feb 2019

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