After ten years, Alabama Shakes are back with a new song, “Another Life.”

Despite the decade-long hiatus, the track shows the celebrated trio hasn’t lost their knack for heady throwback soul. “Another Life” begins with an atmospheric groove as Brittany Howard pleads for second chances: “Can we try in another life?/I won’t make you cry again.” For the song’s second half, Alabama Shakes follow a thumping bridge into an extended psych-soul outro, Howard’s voice and the guitars wailing in the same anguished register.

In a statement, Howard said she wrote “Another Life” while “thinking about all the lives we carry,” adding: “The ones we’re living right now, the ones that slipped away because of different choices, the what ifs, the what wasn’t meant to be, the goodbyes, and the chance enco

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