Mumford & Sons

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Mumford & Sons is an English folk rock band from London, founded at the end of 2007 by Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane and Winston Marshall. The name came about because Mumford was the most visible and organised the gigs. According to Lovett, it had to sound like the name of an old-fashioned family business. The band belonged to a group of young folk musicians in west London, including Laura Marling, with whom Mumford, Dwane and Marshall went on tour.

Music and breakthrough

In 2008 the EP Love Your Ground appeared. The debut album Sigh No More (2009) followed, recorded with the producer Markus Dravs and paid for by the band themselves. The members did not even have instruments of their own at the time. The album includes Little Lion Man and The Cave. The sound revolves around acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, double bass and keyboards, with harmony vocals and a stomping bass drum. The songs often begin quietly and grow to a loud, exuberant climax. Sigh No More won a Brit Award and, after a performance with Bob Dylan at the 2011 Grammy ceremony, also attracted a great deal of attention in America.

Influence

The second album Babel (2012) entered at number 1 in the United States and won the Grammy for album of the year. In 2013 the band headlined Glastonbury. Later, on Wilder Mind (2015), the group opted for electric guitars. Mumford & Sons brought folk instruments back into the big venues and around 2010 helped to set off a wave of folk pop.

Listening

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  The Cave · Mumford & Sons, 2009
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Discography

Studio albums

• 2009Sigh No More
• 2012Babel
• 2015Wilder Mind
• 2018Delta
• 2025RUSHMERE
• 2026Prizefighter

In School of Rock

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• Mixtape 4: When Rock Was Still Pop^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Folk rock GenreFrom 2009 Mumford & Sons brought back the banjo and acoustic guitar, and a few years later they were playing arenas with them.
• Indiefolk GenreBon Iver recorded his first album in a hunting cabin in Wisconsin, and Mumford & Sons of London made the banjo and the mandolin popular at big festivals.
• Little Lion Man SongIn the summer of 2009, Little Lion Man by Mumford & Sons from London was released, taken from the album Sigh No More.

See also

• Delta
• Prizefighter
• Indiefolk