ALABAMA SHAKES - I Must Be Dreaming LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition Indie Exclusive yellow colour vinyl.

The world seems a very different place than it did eleven years ago when Southern psych/soul-rock outfit Alabama Shakes dropped their multiple Grammy award-winning previous LP Sound And Color. For any number of reasons, 2026 comes across as a notably more precarious, divisive and worrying time to be alive. Hope, it seems, is in perilously short supply. No doubt a fair amount of horrible sh!t was still happening back in 2015 - but yeah, 2026 sure does feel worse...

Who better then to give voice to the glaring inequities, the dehumanizing forces, the wanton destruction, and the wilful corporate greed - and (perhaps more importantly) the flipside of all this head-spinning societal corrosiveness: community, love, creativity, resistance - than the righteous force of nature that is singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter Brittany Howard: a woman who, all evidence suggests, has never knowingly shied-away from calling out bullsh!t or hypocrisy. Whilst Zac Cockrell (bass) and Heath Fogg (lead-guitar) are both very fine musicians in their own right; as per, on 2026's I Must Be Dreaming, Howard's tremendously soulful rasp does a fair portion of the heavy lifting for Alabama Shakes.