For some stupid reason, I failed to write about one of the best songs I’ve heard over the past few years.

Home is a love song that isn’t sickly and vile like most love songs. Usually, I like the ones that are quite dark and a bit eerie (The Jesus And Mary Chain are the perfect example.) However, Home by Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros is one of those songs that just make you feel so fucking good inside. You don’t have to be with someone or in love to get this song. Hell, I’m not in love or anything like that at all- but this song just fills every single part of me with so much joy, fuck..it just makes you feel so damn happy to be alive. It takes you to a spiritual place that nothing else has done to you in such a long time.

Listening to Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, for me, is like listening to Warpaint. It really taps into your spiritual being. It transports you to some place so beautiful. Nothing can touch you at all. Bloody hell, Home is just such a divine song. It covers you in goosebumps. It makes you want to grab someone. ANYONE! It makes you want to grab them, and shake them and just sing  “HOME IS WHEREVER I’M WITH YOU!” You’d have to be one stone cold, cruel human being to not feel so much joy from this song.

You remember when I said what I Want You by Summer Camp does to me? Well, Home is on that level. It just shakes you up, stirrs your soul and makes you feel like you can do anything. It’s like a warm blanket on a cold,rainy Winter’s night. It makes your insides feel warm and your bones rested. Everything I love about music is in this song, the album it is taken from makes me feel exactly the same.

In short, Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros make you feel like you are part of their musical family. There’s about 11 of them, I think. When you see live clips of them all performing together, it looks like some kind of peaceful ritual that just elevates your soul. Maybe it’s an L.A. thing? If that’s the case, I want to be in L.A. right now. I want to sit on the beach and listen to this song until I am exhausted and just fall into a deep slumber. It’s 5 minutes long, but it should be longer. Just because it is so perfect; you don’t want it to end. Just like, when you’re having a lovely day with a friend or whatever, and everything in each passing moment you are sharing is so perfect and, nothing or no one can ruin it. That’s what Home does for me. I listen to it, and I’m in the most peaceful state of mind I could ever imagine being in.

I’ve never felt part of anything with anyone. I’ve never felt at “home.” But, when I listen to this, I feel like I am part of something. I create my own home. Home doesn’t have to be a place. It can be a feeling inside. It’s anything you want it to be. This song made me realise that. This song lifts up my spirits every single time I listen to it. Even when I feel totally fine, I listen to this and I just feel something so euphoric and untouchable.