Up From Below by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Up from Below, the first full album from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, came out on July 7, 2009, following the Here Comes EP and arriving two years after the Los Angeles troupe's first gig at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. Alex Ebert runs the show, and the band's name comes from a story he wrote in his youth about a messiah-like character called Edward Sharpe, which tells you a lot about the wide-eyed spirit of the thing.

The sound is a sprawling, communal, sun-bleached hippie revival: roots rock, folk, gospel and psychedelia piled into one big caravan, with singer Jade Castrinos in the ranks alongside Ebert. "Home" was the one that broke it open, a ramshackle singalong that sounds like the whole commune piling onto the chorus. By July 2013 the album had sold 363,000 copies in the US, and Here followed in 2012.

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