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Brittany Howard: What Now review – an outrageously great album
Dancefloor bangers, vintage soul, joyous funk… the winningly candid Alabama Shakes frontwoman mixes it up to perfection on her second solo album
Earth Sign, the first track on Brittany Howard’s second solo album, opens her record as ordinary mortals might strive hard to close theirs – with a transcendent sunburst of hope gilded by complex vocal harmonies, jazz drums and unconventional instrumentation. The songs on What Now – about love fading, new passion starting and Howard often missing relationship red flags – are linked together by hovering, chiming singing bowls. It’s impossible to know what to praise the hardest: the delicate trumpet of Rod McGaha, Howard’s own guitar work or her bravura vocal performance on Every Color in Blue.
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