There’s a double meaning to the title of What Now, the revelatory new album from Brittany Howard.

“With the world we’re living in now, it feels like we’re all just trying to hang onto our souls,” says the Nashville-based musician and frontwoman for four-time Grammy Award-winning Alabama Shakes.

“Everything seems to be getting more extreme and everyone keeps wondering, ‘What now? What’s next?’ By the same coin, the only constant on this record is younever know what’s going to happen next...”