Hippies or hipsters? An equally wonderful and enigmatic company is the American Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros in any case. The ten of them make music under that name, but also run the non-profit organization Big Sun, which supports alternative initiatives in large cities. At the same time they shamelessly lent their single Home to an advertisement for the multinational IKEA. Musically the
… company navigates between intimate folk and folk rock with stadium aspirations. Frontman Alex Ebert is emphatically present and in terms of intense performance is sometimes reminiscent of Gordon Downie from . That his falsetto sounds painfully forced does not seem to matter. The music on Person A sounds far from ready to eat. It is remarkable how, for example, the band with an uncomfortable time signature illustrates the text of the strong Uncomfortable. Wake Up The Sun goes over the top with roaring brass and an ecstatic hippy choir. Person A is full of these kinds of surprises and is therefore never bored. (MR)more
