# Grace Potter's Trespasser: a road saga of forbidden selves

**New Music** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 24 August 2026  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/new-music-releases/grace-potter/

Grace Potter has released her seventh studio album, Trespasser via Thirty Tigers, a conceptual road saga featuring rotating characters who navigate forbidden emotional and physical spaces across 10 tracks. Produced by her husband Eric Valentine and recorded across multiple sessions in California, Tennessee and Vermont, the album spans stripped-back soul, cosmic country and rock & roll anchored by Potter's storytelling voice.

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Four-time GRAMMY nominee **[Grace Potter](https://f34703a2.disco-tracking.net/campaign_redir?business_id=52400&campaign_id=252342&session_recipient_id=154750199&url=NB2HI4DTHIXS653XO4XGS3TTORQWO4TBNUXGG33NF5TXEYLDNFSXA33UORSXELY%3D&signature=v2%3Alegacy%3A1jXWo1AKVwDuUPuMFlQfGwPByzJq059CG6W_n-p2KGk)** has released her seventh studio album, ***Trespasser***, **via Thirty Tigers**. Across 10 tracks, *Trespasser* introduces a beautifully unruly cast of characters who step into forbidden spaces with absolute abandon. Potter has also released the music video for** “Mainstreet U.S.A.” **Watch it **[HERE](https://f34703a2.disco-tracking.net/campaign_redir?business_id=52400&campaign_id=252342&session_recipient_id=154750199&url=NB2HI4DTHIXS66LPOV2HKLTCMUXXKMLBGJCXCN2CON4US%3D%3D%3D&signature=v2%3Alegacy%3AWozP_d1juUNaCQPBRJgGXGUPmptv0-M3VysTdaRraCg)**.

[Watch on YouTube](https://youtu.be/u1a2Eq7BsyI?si=ldzvX0EKCaemGRmG)

*Trespasser* is available now on vinyl in Cell Block Black (standard black vinyl) and Translucent Light Blue (indie retail exclusive). Buy the album **[HERE](https://gracepotter.lnk.to/trespasser)**.

“We’ve always been taught that the trespassers are the bad guys, but to me it’s not about reckless rebellion - it’s about exploring, physically and mentally and emotionally, and being willing to step outside the narratives we’ve accepted,”*** Potter shares.***“Because in my experience, the places we’re told not to go are exactly the ones that show us who we really are.”

As the spiritual sequel to 2023’s critically acclaimed *Mother Road*, Potter continues the kaleidoscopic storyline shaped by her many road trips from her Topanga Canyon home to her part-time residence in her native Vermont (a journey she’s made eight times in the last five years, usually on her own). But while *Mother Road* was born from a desperate need for solace in the midst of emotional freefall, *Trespasser *reveals an artist firmly anchored in her singular vision. The latest chapter in a career marked by endless transformation and elite recognition, *Trespasser *ultimately lights the way toward a more unbound and expansive means of moving through the world.

Although each song on* Trespasser *opens a window onto her inner landscape, Potter conceptualized the album as a dimension-hopping road saga, weaving together what she refers to as “these fables and storylines that have been whooshing around my soul for a very long time.” Part myth, part fever dream, the LP’s rotating cast of drifters circles around Topeka: a wild-hearted nomad who drives off a bridge in the breathless and scorching** “Ride Or Die,”** only to be resurrected within the spectral reverie of **“Gasoline.”** With its ensemble of misfits also including the lascivious ghost of a café delivery boy and the jealousy-crazed diner owner who killed him, *Trespasser* turns epic on** “War On The Mountain”**—a mythic psychodrama in which wholeness comes from making peace with all the selves you were told to exile.

Produced by her husband and frequent collaborator **Eric Valentine** (Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, Slash) and recorded in a cross-country journey beginning at her home in Topanga with **Benmont Tench** (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), continuing in Nashville with *Mother Road *session players** Nick Bockrath** (Cage the Elephant), **Tim Deaux **(Kings of Leon), and **Matt Musty** (Train), and completed in Vermont with members of her longtime live band (guitarists Indya Bratton and Ricky Dover Jr, bassist Kurtis Keber, drummer Jordan West), the album echoes its origins with a wayward sound that spans from stripped-bare soul to cosmic country to hellraising rock & roll—all while orbiting Potter’s force-of-nature voice and lavishly imagined storytelling.

![Woman with blonde hair driving a convertible in bright sunlight, with "TRESPASSER" text below in orange.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/08/df458258-346b-4e15-a0e1-c74078ab2127.jpg)

***TRESPASSER *****TRACKLIST:**

Main Street U.S.A.  
Ride Or Die  
Love Me Not  
Gasoline  
Run Baby Run  
Lost Cafe  
Trespasser  
The Voice  
War On The Mountain  
Belong