Alexander

Alex Ebert kept himself busy through the early 21st hundred years, fronting the energy pop music group Ima Robot for quite some time before launching another group, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, in 2007. Called after a messianic body that Ebert got dreamt up throughout a amount of post-rehab soul-searching, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros grew into an 11-member ensemble whose appearance (bushy beards, Eastern mystic clothes) and audio (folksy pop fused with neo-psychedelia) recalled the free-loving Laurel Canyon audio from the 1960s. Both rings remained active, using the Magnetic Zeros launching their critically acclaimed debut in ’09 2009 and Ima Automatic robot issuing their third record, Another Man’s Treasure, the next year. In the meantime, Ebert collected materials for a single record, Alexander, which he documented during breaks in the Magnetic Zeros’ touring plan. Going for a break through the collaborative strategy of Edward Sharpe (but keeping areas of that band’s exuberant, vintage audio), he performed every instrument in the album, that was released in March 2011.