Tuesday, February 11, 2014

R1-Mumford & Sons



Usually, I am not a very big fan of bands that would be classified as "folk" anything. Mumford is an exception though. Being one of my favorite bands, the amount of musical talent they have alone should be enough to gain the respect of musicians, and music lovers all over the world. The amount of passion and emotion that they put into their work is something that you don't find much of these days. Formed in December of 2007, the band is from London. The band consists of Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall, and Ted Dwane. Later in their career, they would be known as one of the "West London folk scenes", but Mumford insisted they were neither folk nor a scene, but rather a non-exclusive community. I just chose to describe them as folk music to give people a general idea of the kind of music they play. In 2008, the band signed with 
Management Company Everybody's which delivered them to A&R at Island, Louis Bloom. With no record out yet, the band traveled all around U.K., U.S. and Australia, performing materials which would later become "Sigh No More". This amount of traveling, they were steadily gaining followers. It was time to start recording. In May of 2009, the EP “The Cave and the Open Sea” was released. The EP got them some notoriety , which in turn earned them a record label with Island Records. The first single off of their first full length album was “Little Lion Man”.  The album “Sigh No More” was released in 2009. The album received phenomenal reviews with music critics, and fans of folk music. People were able to connect with the group. It’s easy to see that the band is passionate about what they do. Their music also inspired people to try and learn guitar. All in all, the band is composed of a group of phenomenal musicians. I would highly recommend checking them out, if you haven’t already.  


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