Pop Gig of the Week: Alabama Shakes, Electric Brixton, London SW2
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Your support makes all the difference.A whole lot of shaking is already going on in the party the Alabama Shakes arrive at. Kings of Leon and the Black Keys have ploughed similarly blues-strafed retro soul-rock turf; so has Jack White, in his various guises. Yet the latter's love of the Shakes is justified.
Resistance is useless before Brittany Howard's earth-moving voice, for starters, a from-the-gut howl and holler refreshingly untouched by Auto-Tune.
This isn't a case of a dynamite singer fronting studied musos, either: tight and loose all at once, her band's intuitive chops are clearly forged from hard-gigging.
That's the kind of quality dads (and Russell Crowe – also a fan) will drearily insist is "proper music", true, but the Shakes sound thrillingly lived-in, their raids on tradition raggedy rather than reverential.
Throw in a killer debut album, Boys & Girls, and a reputation for sweating up a swampy storm live, and you'll see why they're not to be mistaken for mere latecomers to a ready-made party: they're genuine contenders, fit to swipe the Kings and Keys' crowns.
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