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Mumford & Sons detail new album

By | Published on Tuesday 17 July 2012

Mumford & Sons

Touring-obsessed folk lot Mumford And Sons have announced that they have at last managed to resist the call of “the road” to instead prepare their previously hinted-at second LP, ‘Babel’, for release on 24 Sep.

The band have this to say of the new long player, which is released via Island Records in partnership with their own label Gentlemen Of The Road: “We are more than excited to release ‘Babel’ into the world. We had started writing new songs well before we got into the studio to record. At first, we peeled ourselves off the road quite reluctantly. We love playing live, obviously, but it had also become an important part of our creative process, we had been writing and rehearsing in sound checks, and sort of ‘road-testing’ new songs on our very gracious audiences. But then we fell in love with recording again”.

Adding their appreciation to the album’s producer Markus Dravs (also responsible for Arcade Fire’s ‘The Suburbs’ and Mumford’s 2009 debut ‘Sigh No More’) and engineer Robin Baynton, they continue thus: “As a band, we’ve never been closer or more collaborative, all working to our strengths. 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”.

The road, the road, the road. And now, why take this ‘Babel’ tracklisting out for a trial spin:

Babel
Whispers In The Dark
I Will Wait
Holland Road
Ghosts That We Knew
Lover Of The Light
Lovers’ Eyes
Reminder
Hopeless Wanderer
Broken Crown
Below My Feet
Not With Haste



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