Mumford & Sons are an English folk rock band formed in Greater London. The band consists of Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, and Ted Dwane.
members: Marcus Mumford
formed in: London
labels: Island Records, Glassnote Records, Universal Music Group
genres: rock music, folk rock, folk music, country music
influenced by: Old Crow Medicine Show
awards: Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Juno Award for International Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Music Film, Americana Award for Emerging Act of the Year, Libera Award for Marketing Genius
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Mumford & Sons was formed in December 2007 by multi-instrumentalists Marcus Mumford, Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, and Winston Marshall. Band members play acoustic guitar, drums, keyboard instruments, bass guitar, and traditional folk instruments such as banjo, mandolin and resonator guitar. The band name originates from Marcus Mumford being the most visible member, organising the band and their performances. Lovett indicated that the name was meant to evoke the sense of an "antiquated family business name".
Mumford & Sons have been described by The Hollywood Reporter and Forbes as a folk rock band. They began by using bluegrass and folk instrumentation, with the core instruments of acoustic guitar, banjo, piano and a double bass, played with a rhythmic style based in alternative rock and folk. In the documentary Big Easy Express, Marcus Mumford recognises the Old Crow Medicine Show influence: "I first heard Old Crow's music when I was, like, 16, 17, and that really got me into, like, folk music, bluegrass. I mean, I'd listened to a lot of Dylan, but I hadn't really ventured into the country world so much. So Old Crow was the band that made me fall in love with country music." Mumford acknowledges that "the band inspired them to pick up the...
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"Little Lion Man" is the debut single by English folk rock band Mumford & Sons. It was released as the lead single from their debut studio album, Sigh No More, on 11 August 2009 in the United Kingdom.
The song had a positive commercial performance, charting in several countries and peaking within the top 20 in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Ireland, and New Zealand.
"The Cave" is a song by London folk rock quartet Mumford & Sons, from their debut album Sigh No More (2009). It was released in the UK as the third single from the album on 26 February 2010.
It placed No. 81 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2009 before the single had been released. It was the second single in the US after "Little Lion Man", and had sold 1,657,000 digital copies there by September 2012.
The official music video for "The Cave" features each of the four band members driving on scooters through the roads of Goa, India while singing the song in tandem with four Indian men in marching band uniforms to whom they gave their instruments at the start of the video.
"Winter Winds" is the second single by the London folk quartet Mumford & Sons, released from their debut album, Sigh No More. It was released in the UK on 6 December 2009, where it peaked at number 44; in Belgium it reached number 29.
Fraser McAlpine of the BBC Chart Blog gave the song a positive 5-star review, stating that it would serve as an "amazing Christmas carol equivalent" for a 'winterval' type holiday, as "it's quietly optimistic, pleased without being smug, melancholy but uplifting, " and "sure of itself, but only because all the lessons learned have been hard-won, and generally reflective of times gone by".
In an interview with The A.V. Club, Marcus Mumford said the idea for the video coincides with the writing of the song. "We didn't want to make something that had multiple interpretations and ideas coming from every side. We wanted to express the song. When we were writing [Winter Winds] I was in a pretty chaotic relationship. When we were good we were great but when we weren't, it was horrid. And she continually had put in time and energy to sustain this relationship and something in me wouldn't allow it to. So here I was fighting a feeling, of she's wonderful, she's this, she's that, and still I didn't want her completely. And here she was fighting me, trying to save this sinking ship. We wanted the video to reflect that. You're...
"I Will Wait" is a song by British rock band Mumford & Sons. The track was first released in the United States on 7 August 2012 as the lead single from the band's second studio album, Babel (2012).
The song sold 153,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release and became their highest-charting song in the US to date, peaking at number 12. It also reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Irish, Canadian and Scottish national charts and was voted into fifth place in Australian radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2012.
The music video was directed by Fred & Nick. It was filmed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado.
The song has received generally favourable reviews. Grady Smith of Entertainment Weekly gave the song a positive review, saying how the song "hearkens back to their Grammy-nomination-festooned single "The Cave" with its shouted refrain, triumphant horns, a driving kick drum, and an earnest lyric about a relationship so perfect it has Marcus Mumford kneeling down in reverence, raising his hands, and wishing for his mind to be "freed from the lies."" Stephanie Middleton of The Celebrity Cafe said, "With untouched vocals and harmonies, the boys manage to create yet another genuine Mumford & Sons track."
"Roll Away Your Stone" is the fourth single by London rock quartet, Mumford & Sons, taken from their debut album, Sigh No More. It was released as a digital download on 3 June 2010 and was the third and final single released from Sigh No More in the United States on 7 June 2011.
The song begins with an instrumental version of the Irish jig, "Merrily Kissed the Quaker". The song appeared in the 2012 documentary film, Kony 2012.
"Blind Leading the Blind" is a song by English rock band Mumford & Sons. It was released as a single on 21 October 2019.
The song was written by Marcus Mumford, Winston Marshall, Ben Lovett and Ted Dwane.
The band originally debuted "Blind Leading the Blind" live in 2016 and initially recorded the song during their Delta studio sessions, produced by Paul Epworth at The Church Studios in London.
The "Blind Leading the Blind (Live from Austin City Limits)" music video was shot at Austin City Limits Music Festival Weekend One on 6 Aug 2019 and released on 25 Oct 2019. Another music video was released onto YouTube on 6 December 2019. Both videos were directed by Nick Davies, a previous collaborator of the band. Marcus Mumford said “Working with Nick Davies made the process of making this an absolute privilege. Given our long history of work together, it was a complete joy to be under his direction again. We wanted to access the nature of the song, including some of its anger, introspection and even self-flagellation. A drum kit and an old sweaty laundry in Bangkok while on tour provided all we needed.
"Ditmas" is a song by the band Mumford & Sons from their third studio album Wilder Mind. It was released worldwide as the third single from the album on September 11, 2015, and was sent to American alternative stations on 17 November 2015.
The title of the song stems from Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, in New York City; Ditmas Park is the location of The National guitarist Aaron Dessner's studio where most of the album was written and demoed. The song is a representation of the change in the band's sound, most noticeably less usage of the banjo and more utilization of electric instruments. The song is described as a breakup song.
The music video for the song showcases the relationship between a Ukrainian Cossack and his horse. Directed by Alex Southam, the video was shot in Kyiv, Ukraine. The band is also seen performing the song throughout the video.
"Woman" is a song by English rock band Mumford & Sons. It was released as the third single from their fourth studio album, Delta (2018), on 10 May 2019.
The song was written by Marcus Mumford, Winston Marshall, Ben Lovett and Ted Dwane.
Mumford & Sons started writing music for their fourth album Delta several years before it was released. While the other members were in Brooklyn, guitarist and banjoist Winston Marshall began work on some of the songs on the album in Nashville, where his then-girlfriend Dianna Agron was filming a movie and they became engaged. Marshall had been encouraged by sound engineer Garrett Miller to try more synthesized music, and composed the first verse and the falsetto hook of "Woman" in Nashville. When he took it back to the other members, pianist Ben Lovett described first hearing the song by saying: "[it] just felt like something that was very, very different, but also felt really good. Maybe that was a moment that we felt unshackled by...
A lyric video for "Woman" was released on 3 December 2018, with videography from National Geographic featuring a woodland full of butterflies and elephants roaming the savanna, as part of the "Mumford & Sons + National Geographic Present Delta" series. It had originally been shown on 15 November 2018 at a screening release of the visual album.
The cover art is in grayscale and depicts a forearm with the word "cass" tattooed in a handwritten font.