Alabama Shakes Announce Second Album and Release "Don't Wanna Fight"
Good news and bad news, folks. The mighty Alabama Shakes have returned—but the single is so good, and so surprising, that waiting till April 21 for the band's sophomore album Sound & Color might drive us all clinically insane.
The new song, "Don't Wanna Fight," has that rich, raw, no-fuss instrumentation that defined the band's 2012 debut album Boys & Girls, but there's a whole lotta new happening here. Bandleader Brittany Howard has reshaped her vocal approach, double-tracking falsetto harmonies that could kick it with André 3000 circa "Ms. Jackson"–era OutKast. Listen to "Don't Wanna Fight" immediately:
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