I first heard Mumford & Sons in 2009, when they were still over a year from releasing their first album. The Biblical influence of their music brings me back to some personal experiences relating to the band. I expected their lyrics to be more linked to this trendy media perspective rather than to the Bible. I find these religious undertones surprising as Mumford is a young band whose members are perceived as cool role models – thanks to their style and celebrity associations Marcus Mumford recently married actress Carey Mulligan. And, like with Sigh No More, I also realize that as I sing along to Mumford’s lyrics, I will be singing abridged verses from the Bible and other words with a clearly spiritual message. Babel is pleasant and uplifting and I am sure that over the coming months I will become as familiar with it as I did with Sigh No More. The rest of the album follows suit, providing an equally enjoyable, but perhaps more refined, sound to that of Sigh No More. The album’s lead single, “I Will Wait,” is, like “Little Lion Man,” an upbeat, raucous tune that has already placed highly on charts throughout the English speaking world. Sigh No More provided high tempo, catchy songs, distinguished by Marcus Mumford’s powerful, husky voice and Winston Marshall’s plucky banjo. market, a rare feat for any foreign band, let alone one that plays folky rock. Mumford achieved popular success for their first album, Sigh No More, which was successful in the U.K. Conveniently, earlier this autumn Mumford released a new album, Babel.
Artists such as Noah and the Whale, Stornoway, Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons fill my iPod. This longing for home has shifted my taste towards music that reminds me of my life before Princeton. I pine for long walks through Hyde Park as the leaves begin to fall and the comforting warmth of good, English tea and ginger-nut biscuits. During these periods spent alone, I often find myself thinking about what my home in London is like right now, thousands of miles away. The album is produced by Markus Dravs.Now that the college semester is well and truly underway, I am spending increasing amounts of time sitting in libraries, working and listening to music. And so we feel that this record is a natural progression that we’re proud of, and we cannot wait to take it out on the road."īabel, the follow up to Mumford & Sons 2009 debut album Sigh No More, will be released on 24th September. As a band, we’ve never been closer or more collaborative, all working to our strengths. The album started to come together, and with the help of Markus Dravs once more (and engineer Robin Baynton), we started to relish the challenge of making this album. But then we fell in love with recording again. We love playing live, obviously, but it had also become an important part of our creative process, we had been writing and rehearsing in soundchecks, and sort of ‘road-testing’ new songs on our very gracious audiences. At first, we peeled ourselves off the road quite reluctantly. We had started writing new songs well before we got into the studio to record.
"We are more than excited to release Babel into the world.