Often, the persistent, moody murmur recalls a diluted Kings of Leon, a comparison that can’t help but underscore how Mumford & Sons have made the journey from retro throwback to glistening modern construction. Sometimes, the band do swing for arena-filling hooks and connect - the quietly escalating “Believe,” the incessant surge of “The Wolf,” “Ditmas,” which is the only song here that would scale to bare-bones acoustic arrangements - but usually they subsist on a simmer, letting their immaculate, tasteful rock bubble quietly without ever threatening to spill over the edge. Without their old-timey affectations, the band seems interchangeable with any number of blandly attractive AAA rockers, a group that favors sound over song - a curious switch for a purportedly old-fashioned quartet. A change in fashion isn’t strange - no band wants to be pigeonholed - but the odd thing about Wilder Mind is now that everybody else sounds like Mumford & Sons, Mumford & Sons decide to sound like everybody else.
Who could blame Mumford & Sons for running away from their signature banjo stomp? Come 2015, when Wilder Mind saw spring release, so many bands had copped their big-footed folk jamboree that Mumford & Sons could feel the straitjacket constricting, so it’s not a surprise that the group decided to try on something new. This is sure to be another masterful record from these London natives.
The group took a different approach with Wilder Mind, leaving out their signature acoustic instrumentals (more specifically their highly featured banjo), yet the band states the songwriting remains the same. The new 12-trackGlassnote Records release features singles “Believe” and “The Wolf”. The record is a follow-up to their previous two successful albums Sign No More and Grammy winning Album of the Year, Babel. Wilder Mind is British rock band Mumford & Sons’ third studio album.
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Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © Glassnote Records FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:41 minutes | 985 MB | Genre: Rock, Alternative, Indie Folk
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