Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

Read about these cats in the latest Rolling Stone, and when I sampled I realized I had heard the song from the video below ("Home") just the other day on NPR's All Songs Considered. The band is led by Alex Ebert, the former frontman of the now defunct band IMA ROBOT (sidenote: it was at their concert that I met a young baby goose a.k.a. Ryan Gosling), although the sound is pretty far from Ebert's old gig. Sounds sort of like some Devendra Banhart-fronted Arcade Fire/Mamas & Papas family band? I don't know. Feels 60s commune-ish. Most reviews have found the album a little flat, but I like what I've heard so far, especially the song "Home," which sounds like a big band take on a She & Him tune.