A slow piano ballad driven by perhaps the best vocal performance Potter has ever recorded. The song that you always knew Grace Potter had in her and always hoped that she would write, the absolutely stunning “Release”. The feel of the album begins to turn with “Every Heartbeat”, a song that is not only a little more reminiscent of the traditional Grace Potter sound but just a better song than the first three. These three songs sound almost like leftovers that should have been added to the end of the record, not the beginning. The first track displays some of the pop of her last record, followed by a harder rock track and rounded out by the first appearance of the band Lucius, used later on the record to much better results. The first three songs, “Love Is Love”, “On My Way”, and “Back to Me”, are each completely different from each other and not necessarily Potter’s best work.
The record begins in a somewhat scattered fashion. Ultimately, the most successful songs on the record are the ones that bear a passing resemblance to her old work. The 11 songs that comprise Daylight see Potter continuing to drift away from the sound of her former band, but they don’t quite veer into the pop territory of her last record. All of these events serve as the background for the songs on Daylight. Potter and Valentine welcomed their first child in 2018. Shortly after that, she divorced her husband and Nocturnals drummer, Matt Burr, and began a new relationship with Midnight producer Eric Valentine. After dissolving her long-time band the Nocturnals, she released a more pop-oriented solo record, Midnight, in 2015. Grace Potter has had an eventful few years.