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Mumford & Sons assign release date to new album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 30 May 2012
Mumford & Sons have announced that the new Mumford LP will, in fact, be released on 24 Sep. Speaking backstage at Belgium’s Pinkpop festival, the band’s Ben Lovett said: “We finished the record this week. So we’re going to be able to get it out in September. We just figured that out”.
Asked about points of difference between the untitled new suite and the band’s age-old debut, ‘Sigh No More’, Lovett replied: “There’s similarities, yeah. Nothing’s really changed in our dynamic as a band. We write songs together and they’re very much based on our experiences. The instrumentsare pretty much the same, except for a few we’ve picked up along the way. For the most part, it’s a progression. We don’t want to reinvent ourselves”.
He added: “Right now we’re in a period between the two records, but we’re very much focusing on moving forward. We’re going to play some of the songs from ‘Sigh No More’ in the next few months and I guess every band has to go through it, but it’s new to us”.
The Mumford lot may or may not preview said progressive new LP during their roving caravan of ‘Gentlemen Of The Road’ events (surely, the worst name ever given to a festival), which take place in Huddersfield and Galway on 2 and 9 Jun respectively.
