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- Summary: The second full-length solo studio release from Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard was produced with Shawn Everett.
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- Record Label: Island
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Feb 5, 2024It’s an aural through line as she dazzles us with her range: unexpected dancefloor bangers (Prove It to You), pellucid vintage soul and exultant funk.
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Feb 5, 2024A Jaime 2.0 likely to secure her status as an auteur in terms of both conception and execution. It's bigger, freer-thinking and more dynamically audacious record. [Feb 2024, p.20]
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Feb 7, 2024What Now is another side of Brittany Howard that makes each of her previous departures feel like a baby step by comparison.
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Feb 6, 2024While it may be hard to place genre-wise, it’s not hard to see its quality and sense of ambition.
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Feb 12, 2024What Now is sometimes not an easy listen, but it’s certainly a thrilling and restless journey. Looking at how Howard has evolved from her early days with Alabama Shakes, a more appropriate title for this collection could have been What Next – as whatever does come next is likely to be intriguing.
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Feb 8, 2024Everything from psych-jazz, electro-funk, soulful house and the occasional rocker gets a look in here. In lesser hands it’s a right old mess, but not in Howard’s.
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Feb 13, 2024Sonically, it’s a triumph, a delicately textured musical realm that begs to be luxuriated in. What’s missing is the same level of songwriting that elevated Howard’s previous work. There are a few standout tracks, but no burrowing hooks on the level of “Don’t Wanna Fight” or “Stay High.” The only time she comes close to those earlier songs is on the propulsive “Red Flags.”