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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are an 11 piece music collective from Los Angeles.
After winning over fans around the world with their single Home, they’ve just released their debut album Up From Below.

With their massive line-up, hippy appearance and old-school folk-rock sounds they’ve been drawing comparisons to acts like The Polyphonic Spree. And as band leader Alex Ebert explained to triple j’s Richard Kingsmill some people are claiming they’re a little cult-like.

“I feel like the closest we came to anything like that was someone writing in the Birmingham paper that someone should blow our bus up, they’d be doing the world a favour. I don’t know what that means exactly. No one in the band is taking the concept of a cult seriously. There’s no guiding ethos apart from really basic principles that are just beneficial for all of mankind. There’s no drink blood at 7am every Wednesday or some bullshit like that. There’s nothing that we do that’s particularly cultish.”

Listening to the tightly knit harmonies, soaring fiddle and complex string arrangements of The Lovell Sisters, it might surprise some people to learn that these siblings are each well under 30. With the much-anticipated release of their second studio album this past April, enthusiasm for the trio is growing internationally. All three sisters are classically trained on the violin and piano; after seeing a live bluegrass show in Chattanooga in 2003, they were inspired to explore the music.

Since then, the excitement of critics and fans has only grown. The Lovell Sisters’ second studio album, Time to Grow, further showcases thee group’s beautiful harmonies and virtuoso instrumentals.