This year sees Alexander Ebert and his merry troupe of indie folkies welcoming third album Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. The ten-deep team has packed endless instrumental variations, bearded psychedelic men and anthem bedded harmonies to the heavily declared topics of this third effort.

This time around, the Californians have really struck a cord with their life values and are showing these colors via lyrical confession. Mix in thematic expression of freedom with psychedelic feedback and quirky cheer, and you have the delicious track “Let’s Get High” right on your plate.

As if an ode to Tom Wolfe and his iconic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Ebert cattle calls in the first line of track two, in a slow and bellowing manner, “let’s… get… high!” The jangley guitars and unabashed folksy lyrics really induce the choir like innocence of the songs six and a half minute theme, “Love, I need your love.” This release is full, packed with a new and developed sound for Edward Sharpe.

The band most famous for tracks “Home” and “40 Day Dream,” which were most identifiable as early classics of the 21st century, having been used in just about every commercial, television show and aired incessantly on the radio, which lead to playing for bigger and bigger audiences, have taken the time between its debut and latest release to explore and construct a transient arrangement of sonic feel. With voices guided by “freed souls” and original energy, the triumph of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros seems to come from the coated 1960s and 1970s inspiration.

“Please!” follows the unabashed “give me love” ambition of the album. Ebert takes on falsetto with keen care and delivers a choral effort of “Peace for everybody/Peace/Peace/Peace.” He celebrates much like the Beatles mid their Sgt Pepper days, with widely amusing and distinct raucousness.

Ebert’s identifiable optimism is indeed, blinding. In the 21st century, a band of 11 musicians have made it clear their sporadic guitar fills and wildly open collaborative celebration of life will be performed in song and in album. A cumulative triumph of beauty and emotion, “Life is Hard” really hones in on what this hippie headspace band is all about. “Celebrate it in the sun/Promenade it with everyone…Come celebrate/Life is hard/Come celebrate/All life is all we are.”

We can tell you, it makes us want to drop our pens and join these fools on the hill on the hill, or the road, or in studio, or wherever this life is taking them.

The album has started off strong and will easily be one of the week’s biggest selling albums, a tribute to the momentum the Los Angeles natives have built over the past few years.