After a period of readjustment, including the loss of core member and co-vocalist Jade Castrinos in 2014, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros have emerged on PersonA with a tangible sonic shift, the result of not only their changed line-up but also their new approach, having recorded the album almost entirely in one room together in New Orleans in a move that is a far cry from their ramshackle, come-one-come-all production approach of previous albums.

"We had long been a social experiment first, musicians second,” explains front man Alex Ebert. “Over time, though, we were emerging, by virtue of hours spent, into a group of musicians who could really play together. When Jade left, that confirmed our new fate – music first."