Alabama Shakes have announced details of their first album in more than a decade – “I Must Be Dreaming“, which is released on August 28th via Island Records.
“I Must Be Dreaming” was written by Brittany Howard, Heath Fogg, and Zac Cockrell after the band reunited in late 2024 and recorded in Nashville at Sound Emporium Studios and Blackbird Studio.
Speaking about the album title, Howard says, “There’s a double meaning to it. It could be saying, ‘I must be dreaming, because the world is so fucking crazy right now.’ But it could also mean, ‘I must be dreaming, because the world is so incredibly beautiful.’ Both those things can be true at once.”
The album announcement arrives alongside the announcement of the new single “I Feel Hope Coming”, which is released on Friday, July 10th. The track follows the acclaimed singles “Another Life” and “American Dream“. Recorded in Nashville at Sound Emporium Studios and Blackbird Studios, “I Must Be Dreaming” was produced by Alabama Shakes alongside Shawn Everett. The six-time Grammy winner engineered and mixed “Sound & Color”. Sonicly and thematically, the Brittany Howard-fronted group are said in press materials to “lean into a richly textured, psychedelic soul sound while exploring love, mortality, human connection, and the increasingly surreal contradictions of modern life.”
Howard and bandmates bassist Zac Cockrell and guitarist Heath Fogg reunited in December 2024 after a six-year hiatus. Alabama Shakes toured in 2025 and released the single “Another Life,” their first new original music in 10 years. .
Alabama Shakes detailed “I Must Be Dreaming”, their third studio album and first in over a decade. The long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s “Sound & Color” is due out on August 28
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