A good couple of years in the making but the new Alabama Shakes album is quite a disappointment...... Sound & Color (learn to spell, please) suffers some very obvious faults such as being at 3 songs too long and trying to be too diverse

This is a sprawling, disparate album totally lacking the cohesion that made made Boys & Girls such a fantastic debut

The star as before is Brittany Howard's voice which at times cajoles and coo's and then becomes a full blown holler....

Stand out tracks are Don't Wanna Fight which is reminiscent of a full blown funk attack on the Pussycat Dolls tune Don't Cha ! Additionally Future People adds some keys and a bit of that southern feel which is missing elsewhere

Unfortunately for a band that looks to base it's career on albums there is too much filler here for this to be considered a step forward