Song · Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
“Home” by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
From the album Up From Below (2009)
“Home” by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros appears on 57 radio countdowns from 31 stations between 2009 and 2026. It was first released in 2009 on the album Up From Below. Its best result is #1 on the CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2010, and it was voted number one on four countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #54 alternative song of 2010, #2,631 alternative song of all time and #157 of the '10s.
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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros cut "Home" for Up from Below, their 2009 album, and sent it out as the record's second single in January 2010. Alex Ebert and Jade Castrinos wrote it together and sing it as a duet, and it sounds like two people having the time of their lives: they trade lines, then drop the melody altogether for stretches of spoken back-and-forth.
The whistling is impossible to miss. Count it all up, opening melody included, and it adds up to three minutes, while guitar, piano and trumpet keep everything loose and sunny around the two voices, more campfire sing-along than studio polish. It's indie folk with every guard down. Australia's Triple J later ranked it 73rd on its list of the 100 hottest songs from the previous 20 years.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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