Album · 2015
Sound & Color
Sound & Color is an album by Alabama Shakes, released in 2015 on ATO Records, with 12 tracks.
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12 tracks · 47 min
Album · 2015
Sound & Color is an album by Alabama Shakes, released in 2015 on ATO Records, with 12 tracks.
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12 tracks · 47 min
Sound & Color is Alabama Shake's highly anticipated follow-up to their 2012 Grammy-nominated debut. “We took our time to write this record, and I’m really glad we did,” says Brittany Howard, lead singer and guitarist of Alabama Shakes, about the band’s new album Sound & Color. “We were able to sit down and think about what’s exciting to us, explore all the things we wanted to on our first album. This record is full of genre-bending songs—it’s even harder now when people ask, ‘What kind of band are you?’ I have no clue.” The album’s twelve songs reveal a band honed by years on the road, and drawing from a wide range of influences. The bluesy groove of “Shoegaze” or the garage-rock freak-out on “The Greatest” give way to the psychedelic space jam “Gemini.” The gently swaying, chiming title song opens the album with what Howard calls “more of a visual thing, I think of this whole scene going on,” then explodes into the urgent, tightly-coiled funk of “Don’t Wanna Fight.” Long instrumental intros and passages create hazy atmosphere, and then the intensity of Howard’s vocals snaps everything back into riveting focus. She explains that there were a few specific recordings tha…