{"id":803586,"date":"2020-01-29T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=944871"},"modified":"2020-01-29T09:21:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:21:32","slug":"edward-sharpe-the-magnetic-zeros-alex-ebert-finds-a-natural-groove-on-fluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/edward-sharpe-the-magnetic-zeros-alex-ebert-finds-a-natural-groove-on-fluid\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Sharpe &amp; the Magnetic Zeros\u2019 Alex Ebert Finds a Natural Groove on \u2018Fluid\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AlexEbert.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/edward-sharpe-the-magnetic-zeros\/\" id=\"auto-tag_edward-sharpe-the-magnetic-zeros\" data-tag=\"edward-sharpe-the-magnetic-zeros\">Edward Sharpe &amp; the Magnetic Zeros<\/a> frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/alex-ebert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alex-ebert\" data-tag=\"alex-ebert\">Alex Ebert<\/a> unveiled a delightfully surreal new video for his song, \u201cFluid,\u201d off his upcoming solo album, <i>I v I<\/i>, out January 31st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The song boasts a blown-out mix of hip-hop, funk and deep house, tied together by a bleating saxophone that ultimately corrals the chaos and guides the song to a close with a soaring solo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The lyrics find Ebert exploring ideas of gender, nature and identity, and in a statement he said the song \u201cpredicts the synthesis of amorphous identity and scientific biology. Today\u2019s detractors and bigots, who point most fervently to today\u2019s biological facts to corroborate their disdain, are tomorrow\u2019s luddites. The song\u2019s futuristic antihero finds themselves feeling momentarily isolated by the changing world through the transition of a lover, until, instead of resisting the change, they embrace it \u2014 and celebrate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The video for the track, which Ebert directed, finds the musician grooving against a green screen that projects an ever-changing background of biological stock footage, from splitting cells to blooming flowers to feasting bugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>I v I<\/i> marks Ebert\u2019s second solo album and first since 2011\u2019s <i>Alexander<\/i>. It\u2019s also Ebert\u2019s first album since Edward Sharpe &amp; the Magnetic Zeros\u2019 2016 LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/person-a-204807\/\"><i>Person A<\/i><\/a>. Per a statement, <i>I v I<\/i> \u201ctells a conceptual narrative exploring the many facets of human experience, through the lens of a deteriorating relationship and the eventual phoenix-like rise back into the warmth of a new love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/edward-sharpe-and-the-magnetic-zeroes-alex-ebert-new-solo-song-fluid-944871\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Sharpe &amp; the Magnetic Zeros frontman Alex Ebert unveiled a delightfully surreal new video for his song, \u201cFluid,\u201d off his upcoming solo album, I v I, out January 31st. The song boasts a blown-out mix of hip-hop, funk and deep house, tied together by a bleating saxophone that ultimately corrals the chaos and guides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 08:45:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}