'Sound and Color' is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the Shakes' 2012 debut 'Boys and Girls'. The album's twelve songs reveal a band honed by years on the road, and drawing from a wide range of influences. With 'Sound and Color', Alabama Shakes prove that the response to 'Boys and Girls' was no fluke. Expanding on the soulful blues-rock base that made their name, they defy predictable expectations and map an exciting, surprising, and innovative new direction.