I Must Be Dreaming is the first new album from Alabama Shakes in more than a decade. The album expands on 2015’s album Sound & Color’s unfettered exploration, leaning toward a viscerally charged form of psychedelic soul. Produced by Alabama Shakes and their repeat collaborator Shawn Everett, the album came to life at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios and Blackbird Studio. While the album sustains their signature intensity, its songs often wander into more lush and otherworldly terrain, revealing a more exacting command of atmosphere and space. After forming in 2009, the Athens, AL-bred band exploded onto the scene as a seismic new force in rock & roll, swiftly cementing that legacy with just two albums: 2012’s Boys & Girls (a massively acclaimed LP whose lead single “Hold On” topped Rolling Stone’s list of the year’s best songs) and 2015’s Sound & Color (a Billboard 200 No. 1 debut that notched four Grammy wins, including Best Alternative Music Album). Arriving more than a decade after its predecessor, their new album I Must Be Dreaming expands on Sound & Color’s unfettered exploration, leaning toward a viscerally charged form of psychedelic soul—a perfect backdrop to their prismatic meditations on time and mortality, love in its many forms, and the increasingly surreal dissonance of modern life.