Alabama ShakesBest Alabama Shakes Albums Ranked
7.8
Avg Score
8
Opinions
2
Albums
5
Reviewers
Summary from 8 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Alabama Shakes's catalog across 2 albums from 8 opinions, with an overall average of 7.8/10. The top-rated Alabama Shakes album is Sound & Color (2015) with a 8.2/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Boys & Girls. The discography on Wavelength spans 2012 to 2015. Another Life ranks as the highest-rated Alabama Shakes song on Wavelength with a 8.7/10 average.
Sound & Color
“Alabama Shakes escape their "retro-soul" box for good on Sound & Color, a strange, mystical and unexpected record with traces of Curtis Mayfield, Erykah Badu, MC5, and the Strokes. This is stadium soul with one eye peeking toward another galaxy while hands and feet and throats desperately try to suss out life here on Earth.”
Sound & Color
“Alabama Shakes drop a sophomore record that's an improvement on all fronts.”
Boys & Girls
“The much-hyped, Jack White-feted Alabama garage band's debut finally arrives a significant amount of time after its completion, working to their benefit and detriment.”
Sound & Color
“On their 2012 debut, Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes coined a hot retro mix of black Southern soul and white rock & roll that connected. It was the kind of instant-vintage album that college kids and their record-buying grandpas could love, and it made the Shakes a rare success story among new guitar bands in the streaming era. Sticking to that formula must have been tempting, but Sound & Color shows”
Boys & Girls
“It’s a girl named Brittany, singing about fighting and fucking and how she "didn’t think I’d make it to 22 years old." Run for cover! Actually, Brittany Howard is in total control on the Athens, Alabama, band’s debut, rendering garage-R&B revivalism without a shred of irony. These kids haven’t been at it long enough to […]”
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