Soul band Seratones to release new studio album POWER

The American soul band Seratones will release their sophomore album POWER on the 23rd of August via New West Records. POWER was recorded in the Battle Tapes studio in Nashville and produced with Cage The Elephant’s Bradley Shultz. The new single Gotta Get To Know Ya is out now.

Shreveport, Louisiana’s Seratones is fronted by the gospel-trained powerhouse front-woman A.J. Haynes. On POWER, Haynes showcases how vulnerability can be powerful, as her songs explore her years fighting for reproductive rights and serving as a counselor at one of Louisiana’s last remaining abortion providers, her advocacy for racial equality, her struggles to adapt and overcome, her love of poetry, and much more.

The band went through some changes since their critically acclaimed debut Get Gone; new band members, new label and a new sound. “We went through a pretty dramatic shift with this record, the band lineup, the creative process, the sound: all of it changed in ways that really reflected our growth and evolution.” POWER finds the Shreveport five-piece trading in the brash proto-punk and garage rock ferocity for a timeless brand of gritty soul. “With this album, I knew that I really wanted to draw from the pantheon of soul music,” says Haynes. “Soul was what I danced to in the kitchen with my mother. It’s what I’d come home at night and listen to on my record player. Things are really heightened and scary and overwhelming in this country right now, and returning to soul music was a way of reaching for comfort and security in all of that.”

The album’s first single Gotta Get To Know Ya, highlights the masterful sonic leap on this record. A song about Haynes’ “ever-lingering anxiety about global warming” and her “electric need to dance in order to escape said existential doom." Watch the video below.

Since the release of Seratones’ remarkable debut album in 2016, leading to mass critical praise, the band did tours with the likes of Charles Bradley, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats.