Ally Carnwath 

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – review

Alex Ebert and co's folk psychedelia is relentlessly jaunty – a quality that wears thin, says Ally Carnwath
  
  


Ever since Alex Ebert, occasional frontman of Californian dancepunks Ima Robot, was born again as leader of hippy-folk troupe ES&TMZ, the good vibes have rolled forth. No shortage of them on their third album – a bright, colour-saturated record indebted to the loopiest excesses of 60s psychedelia – but the chirpiness is wearing thin. With the conviction of a true believer,Ebert indulges plenty of whims he really shouldn't: the offbeat gospel rock and droning coda of Let's Get High is a particular trial. Moments of dark-hearted succour, such as They Were Wrong, show up the remorseless jauntiness elsewhere.

 

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