Alabama Shakes reunited final yr for his or her first look on stage collectively in seven years, and now, they’ve teased their official comeback with images of them engaged on new music.
“Engaged on some thrilling stuff!,” the Instagram caption reads, with images depicting the band — Brittany Howard, Zac Cockrell, and Heath Fogg — crafting the follow-up to 2015’s Sound & Coloration in a studio with producer Shawn Everett. See Alabama Shakes’ Instagram publish under.
The group hasn’t formally launched a brand new music since their Grammy-winning rendition of “Killer Diller Blue” for the soundtrack of The American Epic periods in 2018. Shortly after, Alabama Shakes went on hiatus as Howard and Fogg started to give attention to their solo work.
They resurfaced in December 2024 to carry out a profit live performance in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; unique drummer Steve Johnson, who pleaded responsible to home violence prices in 2020 and was arrested on suspicion of kid abuse in 2021 (the fees have been ultimately dropped) didn’t carry out within the reunion live performance, and as a substitute was changed by Ben Tanner. It’s unknown whether or not Tanner will probably be taking part in Alabama Shakes’ new recording periods or stay within the dwell lineup.
In the meantime, it’s been a busy season already for Brittany Howard. The frontwoman debuted her new hardcore band, Kumite, at a profit present in Nashville on January thirteenth. We additionally not too long ago named Howard’s solo music “Energy to Undo” as probably the greatest songs of 2024.