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Sound & Color – the follow-up to Alabama Shakes’ Gold-certified debut album, Boys & Girls, which earned the group three GRAMMY® nominations, including a nod for Best New Artist – will be released in North America on April 21 by ATO Records. Rough Trade will release the album in the UK/Europe on April 20. 

Sound & Color demonstrates the tremendous strides made by Alabama Shakes since the release of 2012’s Boys & Girls. From the gently swaying, chiming title song to the garage-rock freak-out on “The Greatest” to the psychedelic space jam “Gemini,” Alabama Shakes build on the soulful blues-rock base and map a surprising, innovative new direction. 

“We took our time to write this record, and I’m really glad we did,” says lead singer/guitarist Brittany Howard. “We were able to sit down and think about what’s exciting to us. This record is full of genre-bending songs.”

Sound & Color was recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium studio. The band co-produced the album with Blake Mills—a young guitar wizard who has helmed sessions by Sara Watkins and Sky Ferreira, and played alongside everyone from Norah Jones and the Dixie Chicks to Lana Del Ray and Kid Rock. 

The success of Boys & Girls paved the way for Alabama Shakes – comprising lead singer/guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, bassist Zac Cockrell, drummer Steve Johnson, and touring keyboard players Ben Tanner and Paul Horton – to become one of the most celebrated live acts in the world, as they delivered unforgettable performances everywhere from “Saturday Night Live” to the main stages of festivals like Bonnaroo and Glastonbury. Boys & Girls charted in the Top 10 in both the U.S. and the U.K. and "Hold On," the Gold-certified lead single, was voted the #1 Best Song of 2012 by Rolling Stone.


His name is a tribute to a distant relative whose nickname was Mademoiselle, but the elegance of this multi-instrumental singer, originally from Montpellier, expresses itself more in his haute- couture groove than in his wardrobe.
After 5 years of playing classical piano, it is in his collection of records mixed on his turntables in his room and at family celebrations that Monsieur discovered the seductive power of pop choruses and dance.
His instant flash on Prince's psychedelic creativity draws this inspired teenager to playing the guitar on which he composes his first songs. At only 17, this young gentleman has enough material to produce an album. At 20, his passion leads him to Paris where he studies sound engineering and can access a recording studio to release his albums, each song
reflects his desire to embrace with ‘classe’ a bunch of styles like soul, funk, 70's rock, the sophisticated harmonies of English pop ...

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