Alabama Shakes Announce New Studio Album ‘I Must Be Dreaming,’ 1st Since 2015

Alabama Shakes detailed I Must Be Dreaming, their third studio album and first in over a decade. The long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s Sound & Color is due out on August 28 via Island Records, with new single “I Feel Hope Coming” dropping this Friday, July 10.

Recorded in Nashville at Sound Emporium Studios and Blackbird Studios, I Must Be Dreaming was produced by Alabama Shakes alongside Shawn Everett. The six-time Grammy winner engineered and mixed Sound & Color. Sonicly and thematically, the Brittany Howard-fronted group are said in press materials to “lean into a richly textured, psychedelic soul sound while exploring love, mortality, human connection, and the increasingly surreal contradictions of modern life.”

Howard and bandmates bassist Zac Cockrell and guitarist Heath Fogg reunited in December 2024 after a six-year hiatus. Alabama Shakes toured in 2025 and released the single “Another Life,” their first new original music in 10 years. Another single, “American Dream,” followed in April. Both tracks are featured on I Must Be Dreaming

“I Feel Hope Coming” provides a counterbalance to the more grim view of “American Dream” and “Another Life.” The title of the forthcoming LP speaks to the duality of a turbulent world and hope for the future.

“There’s a double meaning to it,” Howard explained. “It could be saying, ‘I must be dreaming, because the world is so fucking crazy right now.’ But it could also mean, ‘I must be dreaming, because the world is so incredibly beautiful.’ Both those things can be true at once.”

Alabama Shakes are currently in the middle of an extensive world tour. A run across Europe continues through July 11 before the band kicks off a North American leg on July 24 in Tacoma, Washington. Stateside gigs include co-bills with Tedeschi Trucks Band, a show at New York City’s historic Radio City Music Hall, festival appearances, stadium gigs supporting Zach Bryan and many other dates across the U.S. and Canada.

Scroll below for more tour and ticket information as well as a trailer and tracklist for I Must Be Dreaming:

Watch Alabama Shakes’ trailer for I Must Be Dreaming below:

I Must Be Dreaming Tracklist

1. Tea Time
2. Another Life
3. Garden
4. I Feel Hope Coming
5. Time
6. Friends
7. Easy
8. How Love’s Supposed To Go
9. Waist Deep
10. American Dream
11. Tied To You