Sound & Color

Sound & Color
Studio album by Alabama Shakes
Released April 21, 2015[1]
Genre Americana, blues rock, garage rock, roots rock, soul
Length 47:26
Label
Alabama Shakes chronology

  • Sound & Color
  • (2015)
Singles from Sound & Color
  1. "Don't Wanna Fight"
    Released: February 10, 2015[2]

Sound & Color is the second studio album from American rock band Alabama Shakes. It was released on April 21, 2015 via ATO Records, MapleMusic Recordings and Rough Trade Records.[1]

Track listing

[1]

All songs written and composed by Brittany Howard, with help from Blake Mills on "Future People", "Guess Who", and "Gemini". 

No. Title Length
1. "Sound & Color"   3:02
2. "Don't Wanna Fight"   3:53
3. "Dunes"   4:18
4. "Future People"   3:22
5. "Gimme All Your Love"   4:03
6. "This Feeling"   4:29
7. "Guess Who"   3:16
8. "The Greatest"   3:50
9. "Shoegaze"   2:59
10. "Miss You"   3:47
11. "Gemini"   6:36
12. "Over My Head"   3:51
Total length:
 47:26

Commercial performance

The album debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart selling 96,000 copies (91,000 copies of traditional album sales) in its first week, in the week ending April 26, 2015, making it the band's first number one album.[3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 80/100[4]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [5]
Exclaim! 9/10[6]
The Observer [7]
The Telegraph [8]
Billboard [9]
Slant Magazine [10]
Rolling Stone [11]
Pitchfork 8.1/10[12]

Upon its release, Sound & Color was widely praised by critics. At the review aggregator Metacritic, the album currently holds a score of 80 based on 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Writing for Exclaim!, Andrea Warner called the record a "deliberately weird record, but authentically weird; it's chaotic yet cohesive, full of sound, colour and unshakable vision."[6]

Charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[13] 6
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[14] 52
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[15] 22
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[16] 58
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[17] 1
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[18] 4
German Albums (Official Top 100)[19] 31
New Zealand Albums (Recorded Music NZ)[20] 15
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[21] 27
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[22] 10
UK Albums (OCC)[23] 6
US Billboard 200[24] 1

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Sound & Color - Alabama Shakes | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Don't Wanna Fight - Alabama Shakes | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ Keith Claufield (April 29, 2015). "Alabama Shakes Scores Its First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard. (Prometheus Global Media). Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Sound & Color Reviews".
  5. ↑ "Sound & Color - Alabama Shakes - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards".
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Warner, Andrea (April 17, 2015). "Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color". Exclaim!. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color review – riveting, kaleidoscopic second album".
  8. ↑ "Alabama Shakes, Sound & Color, review: 'rattling expectations'".
  9. ↑ "Album Review: Alabama Shakes Continue Their Southern Rock Renaissance on 'Sound & Color'".
  10. ↑ "Slant review".
  11. ↑ "Sound & Color".
  12. ↑ "Alabama Shakes: Sound & Color".
  13. ↑ "Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color". Australiancharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color" (in German). Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color" (in Dutch). Ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color" (in French). Ultratop.be. Hung Medien. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Alabama Shakes Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Canadian Albums Chart for Alabama Shakes. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color" (in Dutch). Dutchcharts.nl. Hung Medien. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
  19. ↑ "Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color". Officialcharts.de. GfK Entertainment. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  20. ↑ "Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color". Charts.org.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  21. ↑ "Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color". Portuguesecharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color". Swisscharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  23. ↑ "Alabama Shakes | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  24. ↑ "Alabama Shakes Album & Song Chart History" Billboard 200 for Alabama Shakes. Retrieved April 29, 2015.

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