Alabama Shakes announces release date for first album since 2015
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The highly-anticipated third album from Alabama Shakes is nearly here.
After months of touring and teasing new music along the way, the band has announced it will be releasing the album I Must Be Dreaming on August 28.
This will be their first album since their Tuscaloosa reunion in 2024 + their first full-length release since Sound & Color in 2015.
“The world feels heavy right now. War, politics, people scared. The dream feels further away than it used to. But even in all of that, things still grow. Gardens come back, light gets through, people find each other. Songs find a way home. Time changes everything. The love that stays the life that keeps moving. This record came from those places. Not ignoring the chaos and pretending it’s not there, just listening for what could still bloom inside of it. Somehow, I feel hope coming.”
Brittany Howard, lead singer of Alabama Shakes
I Must Be Dreaming by Alabama Shakes
Alabama Shakes announced the album Tuesday morning with a text to fans at 9AM that included a link to pre-order physical copies + pre-save the album on streaming sites.
The 11-song record will include the band’s two newest singles released in recent months including American Dream and Another Life. A third single from the album called I Feel Hope Coming will be released Friday, July 10.
Here’s the full track list:
- Tea Time
- Another Life
- Garden
- I Feel Hope Coming
- Time
- Friends
- Easy
- How Love’s Supposed To Go
- Waist Deep
- American Dream
- Tied To You
The band has been performing some of the new songs on tour which has included stops in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa.
The band, which started in Athens in 2009, put out two albums between 2012 and 2015 but went on a six-year hiatus before the surprise reunion in Tuscaloosa in 2024.
