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Allen Stone - Building Balance (08/11/19)

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  • Artist: Allen Stone

  • Release date: 8th November, 2019

  • Genre: Soul, R&B, Funk, Singer-Songwriter

  • Record Label: ATO Records

  • Tracks: 14

  • Website:

Soulful Vanguard Allen Stone's building balance takes his soul-stirring R&B and funk to the next artistic level. Allen continues to draw inspiration from '70s funk and soul with current flexes, sitting amid D'Angelo in its sultrier moments, Stevie wonder at its most melodic and the production of Mark Ronson at its most modern. The album features the most personal, lushly produced and gorgeously performed songs of his career. Building balance was largely written in a cabin in the Washington state woods and recorded at sound emporium Studios in Nashville with three producers: the acclaimed British artist Jaime lidell, Grammy-winning producer nasri, and Jeremy most (Emily King). the album is a textured amalgam of R&B and soul, a result of several personal co-writing sessions, collaborations with Emily King & Theo Katzman/ Joey Dosik of vulfpeck, and lyrics by Allen. Equal parts sentimental ("Brown Eyed lover", "consider me") and replete with nostalgic funk ("back to the swing", "sweaters"), Allen's third album shows an artist who has grown into his own and learned to balance and appreciate all parts of his life: the vices of the past and the Gifts of the present, career and family, the brilliant highs and discouraging lows.

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Grace Potter - Daylight (25/10/19)

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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