The Pretty Reckless To Release Debut Album

• 18th Aug 2010

You’ve seen her on TV as part of the elite crowd in ITV2’s hugely popular TV series Gossip Girl, she’s been heralded as Hollywood’s hottest new fashionista and now we get to see and hear the darker side of Taylor Momsen, with her rock band The Pretty Reckless.

Formed last year by Momsen and signed to Interscope Records, The Pretty Reckless release their debut album ‘Light Me Up’, produced by Kato Khandwala (Blondie, My Chemical Romance, Paramore) on August 30th, preceded by their second single, the garage-rock stomper ‘Miss Nothing’ on Aug 23rd through Interscope/Polydor Records.

The New York quartet released their debut single, ‘Make Me Wanna Die’ to a rapturous response earlier this year and was an iTunes Top 10 hit and A-listed on Radio One and the Kerrang network, as well as being Fearne Cotton’s Record of the Week.

The Pretty Reckless – 17 year-old vocalist/lyricist Taylor, completed by guitarist and co-writer Ben Phillips, bassist Mark Damon and percussionist Jamie Perkins – first ever UK live show in London was packed-to-the-rafters and described by Kerrang magazine as : “heavy riffs and wailing guitar solos…the crowd are at the Gossip-Girl-gone-grunge’s mercy”.

The four-piece are currently on the US Vans Warped Tour which will see them play forty two dates across the US, before heading across the pond to play a show at Islington Academy as well as their first ever UK festival – V festival 2010.

The Pretty Reckless’ debut album ‘Light Me Up’ is an unflinchingly honest chronicle of Momsen’s experiences, filtered through her unique point of view: “The record is about life,” says Taylor, “It covers everything: love, death, and music itself. It’s rock and roll. It’s sex. It’s drugs. It’s religion. It’s politics. Each song tells a story about the trials and tribulations and emotional struggles that I’ve experienced or observed. It’s not a happy pop record, but it’s not Satan-worshiping either. The lyrics aren’t meant to be taken literally, they are open to interpretation.”

August 19th – Islington Academy
August 21th/22nd – V Festival