Unless you’ve been living under a rock or you never read this site (both of which are completely possible), it’s likely that you know that I’m obsessed with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros frontman Alex Ebert and all of his incredible musical projects. And as I believe I mentioned before, he’s recently released a new solo track called “Truth” under the name Alexander. It’s totally chill and sounds like it could be the closing credits for some sort of western dramedy, but like a really awesome one. I’m not sure if he’s got a whole solo album coming out or what, but I’ve been hearing this track on my favorite XM station, Sirius XMU, for a while now. And the fact that I’ve never seen it on the web until today (first posted by zrdavis), I’m assuming it’s some sort of radio rip, but we’ve been told that the high quality version should be making its way around in the very near future, and we for one cannot wait. And even if it is a low quality radio rip, I still think the masses should get to hear it even if they aren’t subscribed to XM, because it’s pretty great. Here’s to hoping there is a full solo album in the works. Between an Alexander solo album and some new stuff from Ima Robot (who, to be honest, I’d never listened to before until I got their fantastic new track “Ruthless” sent to me a few weeks back), my obsession will continue to be fed. Which is good, because I love eating.
Sweet, I’ve been on a Alex Elbert streak too, first heard “home” by Edward Shrape and then I wiki’ed him and Downloaded everything Ima Robot…
I think you will find Ima Robot to be experimental in each album and EP… they are always trying new stuff… Search and Destroy EP is really good, so is the Alive EP.
The way I found your blog was searching for the When I Grow Up (Fever Ray cover) another amazing song… keep up the work!
-Stephen
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chris Reply:
October 12th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Thanks for the props and glad you like the site! I’ve definitely got Ima Robot on my list of older releases to check out. And if you liked home, you should definitely listen to the rest of the Edward Sharpe album (and catch the band live if you can. Incredible energy)
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1) thanks for the reference
2) thanks for posting awesome music
- Zach
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chris Reply:
October 12th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
1) thanks for (presumably) ripping this track
2) thanks for reading
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Fire!!!!!!!!!
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Please… anybody…. find a high quality version of this song. I wish Alex would sell the single somewhere! I’d love to buy a studio quality version.
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OMGosh, thanku thanku thanku. I’ve only heard his brilliant new trak 4 times. It moves me in such a raw and intence way, i really cant explain it. As soon as i found out his name i googled and here i am. Thank u
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Funny you should mention that the song should be in an end credits of a movie – I heard this song yesterday at the end credits of the season premiere for Breaking Bad. Great song!
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