Via <a href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/blog/brent/2009/12/grace-potter-glams-it-up.html">The Burlington Free Press</a>.

<blockquote>All this talk of new material and rock vs. pop and Grace glamming it up brings me to talk of the forthcoming Grace Potter and the Nocturnals album. I spoke last week with the band's manager, Justin Goldberg, and Sharrin Summers, spokeswoman for the band's label, Hollywood Records, about the convoluted and surprising turn of events that has befallen the next record. You may recall the band scored a pretty cool coup by landing the legendary Grammy-winning producer T Bone Burnett. T Bone brought in outside musicians and minimized the participation of the Nocturnals, leading to an album that by the sounds of things evokes Grace's earlier, pre-Nocturnals songs like those on the album "Original Soul" - Sharrin Summers called the music "delicate" and "beautiful" and Justin Goldberg referred to the recordings with T Bone as "this magical experience."

But it apparently wasn't what Hollywood Records was looking for. The label's honcho, Bob Cavallo, signed the band almost exactly four years ago based on its incendiary, rocking live shows, and the T Bone album didn't fit that description. So the material recorded with T Bone has been shelved in favor of another effort Grace and the band put together with Mark Batson, who's worked with some pretty heavy hitters including Dave Matthews, Eminem and Beyonce. Goldberg says the guitars will be brought back into action and the album will play up Grace's increasing "glam" attitude (there's that word again). That album, which has no name at the moment and might be self-titled, is tentatively scheduled to come out April 20.</blockquote>

For me "One Short Night" sounded great as a recording (what? you didn't hear it) but it gets a bit thin onstage and I've never been a huge fan of "Money". It's a great piece of songwriting with a lilting hook but I don't love it quite so much. "Hot Summer Night", "Only Love", "Tiny Light" and "Oasis" feel right to me. "One More Goodbye Kiss" is, once again, a fine song on it's own but seems a bit out of place in the rock n' roll live set.

As to the "make or break album" reference. Time will certainly tell.

