Katesy's Picks.

Katesy’s picks
Spotify took a day to moderate my playlist so what was meant to be some Sunday songs are now Monday songs and in that time I figured out I don't need Spotify to moderate my playlist but ho hum. They are..

40 Day Dream - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Dear Old Greenland - Andrew Bird..this one's off of his quite old album, The Swimming Hour..which for Andrew Bird fans is an extra special treat.
Little Boxes - Devendra Banhart [this leads nicely on to a story about one of my favourite TV shows called Weeds which, for a while, had this Little Boxes song as their theme song only different people would sing different versions for each episode, of which this was one.]
I Need A Dollar - Aloe Blacc
I Can See The Pines Are Dancing - A.A. Bondy
Animal - Miike Snow
However Many Takes It Takes - Vandaveer
Heartbeats - José González
Tropical Island - Adam Green
Anyone Else But You - The Moldy Peaches
I'm a Pilot - Fanfarlo
Hullaballabalú - Múm
Don't Stop Believin' - Petra Haden
All I Want Is You - Barry Louis Polisar
You Are The Only One I Love - Jaymay
A Slow Parade - A.A. Bondy
Piece Of My Heart - Janis Joplin
Burial - Miike Snow
Go Do - Jónsi
How Does That Grab You, Darlin' - Nancy Sinatra
Cut And Run - Electrelane
Island, IS - Volcano Choir
Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
The Ghost Inside - Broken Bells
Home - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros [of course!]

I made it!

So who's been listening to Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros? I wish I could say more about their album but I've been stuck listening to this one song called Home and I haven't really made it onto the rest of their album [Up From Below]..although saying that, I did have a quick breeze through and the rest sounds pretty good too.

I do have a tiny bit to tell you about them. Lead singer, percussionist, guitarist and piano player Alex Ebert, formerly lead singer of IMA Robot, had a bit of a nightmare a few years ago after breaking up with his girlfriend, moving out and starting a 12-step programme for addiction. He created his alter-ego Edward Sharpe who he declared was sent down to Earth to kinda heal and save mankind but he kept getting distracted by girls and falling in love, met Jade Castrinos and then poof, played their first show in July 2007 and then poof, again, released their digital recording in July 2009.

The main group consists of
Alex Ebert
Jade Castrinos
Nico Aglietti
Stewart Cole
Tay Strathairn
Aaron Older
Josh Collazo
Orpheo McCord
Nora Kirkpatrick
Christian Letts, but there can be up to 16 of them.
And that's all I know!

Without a doubt Home is my favourite song of theirs, I could listen to it forever and like to think I could quite easily fit in that big bunch of crazies, maybe even one of them could tune my, so far, untuneable ukelele.