Here by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Here, the second album from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, came out on May 29, 2012, through Vagrant and Rough Trade, three years after Up from Below. They made it at Adios Studios, the Ed Shed in Ojai, California, and at Studio in the Country in Louisiana, and it's the Los Angeles collective turning down the carnival and turning up the campfire.

Alex Ebert, who named the band after a messianic character from a story he wrote as a kid, sings about love and the spirit over warm, ramshackle group singing and easygoing psychedelic folk, the band's roots rock, gospel and hippie-era leanings all in the mix. "Man On Fire" is the heart of it, and "Fiya Wata" rounds it out. Reviews were mostly warm, and it landed at number 7 on a major year-end list for 2012.

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