Alabama Shakes share sci-fi video for new single "Sound & Color"

James Frost has directed the video, which is based on a sci-fi concept by frontwoman Brittany Howard.

In our review of the record, writer Michael McAndrew said: "While Boys & Girls seemed to crawl out of its creators fully formed, Sound & Color feels like it might require a longer gestation period. It is both brilliant and uneven. It defies expectations without disrupting the status quo. Speaking with The New York Times recently about what it felt like to deviate from the set list the band has been playing for the last four years, Howard had some prescient words: “It reminded me of 2009, when we were getting up onstage together for the first time, and it was scary, and you felt completely vulnerable to the crowd. It was that feeling of: I’m terrified, but I need to do it. I have to do it. ’Cause if I don’t do it, then everything’s gonna stay the same.”"

Sound & Color is out now.

Check out the "Sound & Color" video below, and then pore over the band's upcoming UK shows afterwards.

May

13 - UK, Birmingham, O2 Academy
15 - UK, Brighton, The Great Escape (The Dome) (SOLD OUT)
16 - UK, Manchester, O2 Apollo

June

24-28 UK, Glastonbury Festival

July

12 - UK @ T In The Park

November

18 - UK, London, O2 Academy Brixton