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"Desert Song" may be buried somewhere in the middle of Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros' latest LP, Up From Below , out as of last week on Vagrant Records, but it's the intro to their twelve-part, feature-length movie-musical. The song features an intro filmed by singer Alex Ebert's mother and a chant by his father. It almost seems fitting - the song is apparently about (according to the YouTube caption for the video) " Alex's reckoning with the middle name his father secretly wrote on his birth certificate - a [...]

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