Up from Below

Up from Below is the first album from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. It was preceded by Here Comes EP.

Up from Below
Studio album by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Released	July 7, 2009
Recorded	June 2008-June 2009
Studio	Woodrow Hideaway, Laurel Canyon
Genre	Indie folk, folk rock, neo-psychedelia
Length	56:58
Label	Vagrant, Rough Trade
Producer	Nicolo Aglietti, Aaron Older, Edward Sharpe,
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros chronology
Here Comes (2009) Up from Below (2009) Here (2012)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	66/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Drowned in Sound	7/10[3]
The Guardian	[4]
Pitchfork	4.1/10[5]
Prefix Mag	8.5/10[6]
Sputnikmusic	2.5/5[7]
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Commercial performance

As of July 4, 2013, the album has sold 363,000 copies in United States.^[8]

Track listing

Up from Below track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"40 Day Dream"	3:54
2.	"Janglin"	3:50
3.	"Up from Below" (Nico Aglietti,Tay Strathairn, Ebert)	4:10
4.	"Carries On"	4:31
5.	"Jade!" (Christian Letts, Ebert)	3:44
6.	"Home" (Jade Castrinos, Ebert)	5:06
7.	"Desert Song"	4:30
8.	"Black Water"	3:51
9.	"Come in Please" (Aglietti, Ebert)	5:07
10.	"Simplest Love"	2:53
11.	"Kisses over Babylon"	5:16
12.	"Brother" (Aglietti, Ebert)	3:57
13.	"Om Nashi Me"	6:16
14.	"Carries On" (KCRW.com presents) (US digital-only bonus track)	4:26
15.	"Desert Song" (US digital-only bonus video)	6:54

All tracks are written by Alex Ebert (credited fictitiously as "Edward Sharpe"), except where noted.

In popular culture

• "Kisses Over Babylon" the music video appeared in 8th season of Beavis and Butthead in the episode "Bathroom Break".
• "40 Day Dream" was featured in a promo for season 5 of Mad Men and season 3 episode 6 of Chuck in Chuck Versus the Nacho Sampler
• "Janglin" was featured in a commercial for the 2011 Ford Fiesta.
• "Brother" was named after Ebert's good friend and famed actor Heath Ledger, who died in 2008. Ebert said in an interview with the BuildSeriesNYC in early 2020 that he and Ledger, the night before Ledger's death, were talking about a movie script concept where they are brothers, and one of them dies, and the spirit is with the other. Ebert talked about being stunned the next morning to find out Ledger had died.
• "Home" was featured in a commercial for the NFL that focused on many cities and their home fans. It was used in the 2014 movie The Book of Life,^[9] in an episode of Community entitled "Debate 109", and in the season 1 finale of Raising Hope. "Home" was covered by the cast of Glee in the sixth-season episode "Homecoming". The commercial ubiquity of "Home" and other derivative pop folk songs eventually grew to frustrate Ebert.^[10]
• "Om Nashi Me" was featured in Andrew Reynold's part for the Emerica video "Stay Gold".

Charts

Chart performance for Up from Below

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart[11]	86
Canadian Albums Chart[12]	132
US Billboard 200[13]	76

Chart (2013)	Peak position
UK Albums (2013)[14]	52

Certifications

Certifications for Up from Below

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[15]	Gold	500,000‡
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.