Alabama Shakes / Boys & Girls
Artist Alabama Shakes
Title Boys & Girls
Format LP
Released 2012
Catalog No ATO0142
Label ATO Records
Notes Alabama Shakes' debut release Boys & Girls marks the arrival of a major new rock 'n' roll band. Due out on ATO Records, the album was recorded at The Bomb Shelter in Nashville, TN and was produced and mixed by the band. Boys & Girls is a vibrant fusion of swampy, dirty Southern rock, blues and soul delivered with punk rock fervor. From the heartrending title song to such stompers as "Rise to the Sun," the album demonstrates the sense of groove and space the band learned from their idols, along with a blistering force and emotion that simply can't be learned.

"A thunderbolt dressed in blue jeans with music that's aching when it's slow and growling and whooping when it's fast." - New York Times