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Mumford & Sons

ARTIST · FOLK / ROCK

Mumford & Sons

Kick-drum thump and gang vocal oohs—west London boys selling Appalachia catharsis.

  • Folk rock
  • Indie folk

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Biography

Sigh No More translated punk-show energy into acoustic instrumentation.

Babel expanded electric palettes while keeping chant-along instincts.

Later albums embraced groove and synth without abandoning melodic heart.

Lossless streams keep banjo transients, accordion wheeze, and crowd-sized reverb.

Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall, and Ted Dwane met in London’s folk scene. Their banjo-led sound rode the folk revival and made Sigh No More (2009) a worldwide hit with Little Lion Man and The Cave.

Babel (2012) won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, but Wilder Mind (2015) swapped banjo for electric guitars. Delta (2018) followed.

Mumford & Sons: recent news, 2020–2026

  1. 2021 Banjoist Winston Marshall left the band in March.
  2. 2025 The band released Rushmere, a return to its folk roots.

Interesting facts about Mumford & Sons

  • 01 British folk rock band formed in London in 2007.
  • 02 Sigh No More (2009) reached number two on the US Billboard 200.
  • 03 Won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Babel in 2013.
  • 04 Babel won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
  • 05 Wilder Mind (2015) traded banjo for electric guitars.

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