{"id":6776,"date":"2012-06-22T11:58:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6776"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:01:54","slug":"alabama-shakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/alabama-shakes\/","title":{"rendered":"ALABAMA SHAKES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6777\" title=\"ALABAMA--SHAKES-M-Review-May2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ALABAMA-SHAKES-M-Review-May2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ALABAMA-SHAKES-M-Review-May2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ALABAMA-SHAKES-M-Review-May2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A<\/strong><strong>LABAMA SHAKES\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Boys &amp; Girls<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ATO]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alabama Shakes plays in a pocket deep enough to lose your keys in. It\u2019s like a protective bubble for the quintet, which has managed to ignore inflated industry expectations to record this fierce, compelling debut LP. Although the band insists it\u2019s not a retro-soul act, <em>Boys &amp; Girls<\/em> is drenched in guitar, organ, round bass and edge-of-the-beat drums. What truly elevates Alabama Shakes, though, is Brittany Howard\u2019s voice. She sings with uncommon fire, sometimes with quiet, slow-burning passion and sometimes in an intense burst of emotion. Her voice pulls the instruments into a tight orbit on \u201cHold On,\u201d stopping and starting with taut precision, while opener \u201cBe Mine\u201d builds from tough self-possession to a scorching finale as Howard loses herself in pounding drums and ringing guitars. She demonstrates impeccable instincts as a performer throughout\u2014and she\u2019s blessed with a band that more than keeps up with her\u00a0the whole way through.\u00a0 \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALABAMA SHAKES\u00a0 Boys &amp; Girls [ATO] Alabama Shakes plays in a pocket deep enough to lose your keys in. It\u2019s like a protective bubble for the quintet, which has managed to ignore inflated industry expectations to record this fierce, compelling debut LP. Although the band insists it\u2019s not a retro-soul act, Boys &amp; Girls is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[4084,196,165,4085,4086,3754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6779,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions\/6779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}