HERE IT IS YOU ASSHOLES
Sorry 'bout that, the publisher has been on my ass all day about this post but IT'S FINALLY HERE SO YOU CAN SHUT UP NOW. So I called dibs on AotW this time and I only had one alby on my mind...the beautiful Up From Below by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.
Where the hell are they all coming from?
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Believe me when I tell ya....this thing has magic powers. MARGIC POWDERPS. Track 1, "40 Day Dream", starts with a little clappy buildup that rockets you into a beautiful melody that sets the tone for the rest of the song. The lyrics are amazin' (not only on this song, but the whole damn album) and I always catch myself singing along with the chorus. Then I tell myself to cut down that damn racket because I'll never ever be a rock star and I should just get a damned degree already!
Available in PDF and HTML, but I'd advise not writing your name in crayon like I did.
Now I won't write extensively on every song, but I have to single out Track 2, "Janglin", because this is my favoritest song on the whole album ("Home" doesn't count). The intro is peppy and cheerful and the chorus, again, casts me under some sort of karaoke spell that can't be broken until one of my roommates hits me in the nuts so I will "shut the hell up, already!" or whatever.
The title track is up next, again providing el listener with another sprightly melody coupled at times with some horns and a simple, yet catchy piano riff. Throw in one of my favorite choruses (chori?) and you've got yourself a hit in this blogger's glossy eyes! The next two tracks are a bit more somber, causing some to shut them off and listen to something cool like Timbaland. Those that stay tuned, however, are about to get sweet angel love sauce poured into their brains. HOME, BITCHEZZZ!!! Everyone that has heard this song loves it because anyone that said they didn't was immediately killed so they wouldn't further sully the planet with their stupidity and shitty taste in music.
A world without idiots
In a word, "Home" is FUCKING SWEET, BRO. After listening to this just once I could not stop whistling it wherever I went. After the second time I could burp all the lyrics and after the third I was able to play the song on steel drums. Results may vary. I already wrote a post on "Home" so I'll stop here. But yo read that shit, homie.
This post is almost as long as my college entrance essay, so I'm going to move a little quicker through the remainder of the album (like sum it up in a paragraph). I could, of course, go back and edit what I've already written, but I'm much too lazy to Backspace. "What do you do when you commit a typing error?", you say. "Fuck off!", I say in return.
Me, in return.
Back to the music..some of my favorite remaining tracks are "Black Water", "I Come In Please", "Brother", and "Om Nashi Me". These guys really figured it out with their first full length album. Unfortunately for us, our man in the field (whatup, Ruli?) tells us that Ed and his Zeros are usually too strung out on God-knows-what to put on a good show. I say we all have a beer in the hopes that they sober up.
Listening to the whole album will take you on a ride through ups, downs, ins, outs, arounds, throughs, highways, byways, tollbooths, turnpikes, canals, tunnels, and galaxies. Also, I feel like you should listen to it in a field or meadow. But wherever the hell you end up jammin' to this album, make sure you listen to the lyrics and don't be afraid to sing along with 'em.
Tell them ol' Charlie sent ya
