He had his own voice, his breath, his knees to slap, his fingers to snap and his toes to tap. Vincent's thrift store in Los Angeles for seventy bucks, a clarinet he used for the bridge on the record's first single, "Truth," and a violin he'd found somewhere in Tucson on tour. Alone in his room, he had his guitar, a Lowery organ he picked up at a St. There isn't a single sound on the ten-song album that Alexander didn't perform himself. "I wanted to be able to build an album basically with my hands, like building a house by myself," Alexander remarked of his inspiration for making this album without outside help. Before this album, all of the music he worked on had been collaborative, especially with the 10-person Magnetic Zeroes. During breaks from touring with the Zeroes over the past year, Alexander began building and recording the pieces that would become the songs for this album alone in his bedroom. The track-list for the album can be found below. The album will include ten brand new songs that Alexander wrote and composed entirely himself. Alexander Ebert, lead singer of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, will be releasing his debut solo album Alexander on March 1st via Community Music (Rough Trade will release the album in Europe on February 28th).
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