Mumford & Sons have released four studio albums: Sigh No More (2009), Babel (2012), Wilder Mind (2015), and Delta (2018). Sigh No More peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200 in the US, with Babel and Wilder Mind both debuting at number one in the UK and US, the former becoming the fastest-selling rock album of the decade and leading to a headline performance at Glastonbury Festival in 2013. The band has also issued two live albums: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire (2011) and The Road to Red Rocks (2012).
Mumford & Sons were formed in December 2007 by multi-instrumentalists Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane. 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 the fact that Marcus Mumford was the most visible member, organizing the band and their performances. Lovett indicated that the name was meant to invoke the sense of an "antiquated family business name".
A handful of similar bands were increasing their visibility in West London around the same time, giving rise to the label "West London folk scene". Mumford downplays that characterisation as an exaggeration—Mumford & Sons and a few other folk acts just happened to be operating in the same general area at the time. In an interview with the Herald Sun, Marcus Mumford said, "It's not folk really. Well, some of it is, and it's certainly not a scene. Someone got over-excited about a few bands who live in a hundred-mile radius and put it in a box to sell it as a package. It's a community, not a scene. It's not exclusive." Having developed in the same musical and cultural environment, Mumford & Sons' sound has been compared to that of artists such as Noah and the Whale, Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling, whose backing band had included Marshall, Mumford, and Dwane.
In early 2008 the band began working with manager Adam Tudhope, who, as part of management company Everybody's, also represents Keane and Laura Marling. It was through Tudhope's connection that Mumford & Sons were exposed to their future A&R at Island, Louis Bloom, who began monitoring the band. Bloom told HitQuarters that they were still at a fledgling state and not yet ready for a label deal: "There was no one there for it, just a few friends, and they needed time to develop. Over the next six months I kept going to see them and they were literally picking up fans every time."
In February 2008, the band completed an extensive UK tour with support from Alessi's Ark, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Peggy Sue and others. June 2008 marked the band's first appearance at the Glastonbury Festival. They also toured Australia with Laura Marling, whose disinclination to interact with audiences encouraged Mumford into the spotlight. The experience helped inform his attitude towards Mumford & Sons audiences, which is to interact frequently and to try to create a comfortable, casual atmosphere. Mumford & Sons' first project was an EP entitled Love Your Ground which took a year to complete and was released in November 2008 on Chess Club Records.
The band 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 recognizes 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 were the band that made me fall in love with country music." Mumford acknowledges that "the band inspired them to pick up the banjo and start their now famous country nights in London." Ketch Secor, Old Crow front-man, concurs: "Those boys took the message and ran with it.
Much of Mumford & Sons' lyrical content has a strong literary influence, its debut album name deriving from William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The track "Sigh No More" includes lines from the play such as Serve God love me and mend, For man is a giddy thing, and One foot in sea and one on shore. The title of the song "Roll Away Your Stone" is an allusion to Macbeth; the song includes the line Stars hide your fires/ And these here are my desires which borrows and pares down Macbeth's line in act 1, scene 4: Stars, hide your fires,/ Let not light see my black and deep desires. Additionally, "The Cave" includes several references to The Odyssey, in particular the sirens that Odysseus encounters on his journey home. The song also contains many references to G.K. Chesterton's book, St. Francis of Assisi, in which Chesterton uses Plato's Cave as a way of explaining how St. Francis views the world from God's perspective. "Little Lion Man" appears to be a retelling in dramatic monologue form of Chretien de Troyes' Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, which is the story of a knight who goes mad after betraying a promise to his wife to return to her. Both "Timshel" and "Dust Bowl Dance" draw heavily from the John Steinbeck novels Of Mice and Men, East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath.
The band's change in sound on their third album was described by Lovett as a "natural departure." At the end of the Babel tour Winston Marshall traded his banjo for electric guitar in sound checks and Mumford started playing more drums as the band jammed on heavy instrumentals and even some Radiohead tunes. Banjo does not feature on the record, an instrument that had become synonymous with the band. NME reported that the band's sound is "More expansive than ever and decidedly heavier, thanks to the shift in instrumentation." The group also employed a full drumkit instead of kick drum. "We've had our standard line-up of instruments for the last six years and we felt like that was our palette, [but] we started picking up other stuff," said Lovett. "It's a very natural departure from some of that rootsier stuff."
Lovett told NME that working with James Ford for Wilder Mind was part of trying something new. "We felt a need for change. Not from Markus [Dravs], but he was so closely attached to those first two records that as we had taken that time off, we wanted to try doing something new. It felt like, if we do our third record with Markus, does that mean we do our ninth and 10th records with Markus? At some point you have to try different things, as we collectively felt like it was time to try other stuff. Markus knows that we might well make the next record with him. We definitely haven't broken up [with Dravs], we're just playing the field!".
The band have won a number of music awards throughout their career, with Sigh No More earning the band the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2011 and six overall Grammy Award nominations. The live performance at the 2011 Grammy ceremony with Bob Dylan and The Avett Brothers led to a surge in popularity for the band in the US. The band received eight total Grammy nominations for Babel and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The band also won the Brit Award for Best British Group in 2013.
Feel The Tide
Mumford & Sons Lyrics
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Rubs his back and strokes his hair
Telling him it's okay to cry
But he just sits and stares
The merciless moon outside
Has nothing now he's come to realize
Only the desolation he feels
The cold distance inside
But you and I now
We can be alright
Just hold on to what we know is true
You and I now
Though it's cold inside
Feel the tide turning
While the priest just sits and weeps
Lamenting the fact that he can see
Darkness and light in so much detail
He has given himself over
Refusing what he knows to be real
He turns away from every meal
Starving himself of goodness
He doesn't think he can heal
But you and I now
We can be alright
Just hold on to what we know is true
You and I now
Though it's cold inside
Feel the tide turning
"What if I lost all I had?"
Said the stranger to his dad
And the witness was confused
He can't tell what is bad
Instead he runs up to the nearest girl
And he comments on her glorious curls
Says, "Darling come with me
I'll show you a whole new world"
But you and I now
We can be alright
Just hold on to what we know is true
You and I now
Though it's cold inside
Feel the tide turning
The song "Feel The Tide" by Mumford & Sons paints a bleak picture of several individuals struggling with their own personal demons. The first verse describes a scene where a woman attempts to console a man who refuses to show his vulnerability. We see an image of a moon absent of any warmth, paralleling his own feelings of emptiness and despair. The second verse depicts a priest who recognizes the darkness in the world but refuses to acknowledge any light, causing him to reject even the good things in his life. The final verse shows a man contemplating his life and questioning what he would do if he lost it all. Instead of facing his fears, he chooses to run away and indulge in superficial pleasures.
However, the chorus provides a glimmer of hope, indicating that despite the despair, the two individuals in the song can support one another and hold onto what they know to be true. The lyrics "feel the tide turning" suggest that things can change for the better if they remain steadfast.
Overall, "Feel The Tide" seems to be a song about the struggle to find meaning and hope in a world that can seem overwhelmingly bleak. The song acknowledges the darkness but offers a path towards hope and connection.
Line by Line Meaning
She sits him down in a stiff chair
A woman is attempting to comfort someone who is troubled.
Rubs his back and strokes his hair
The woman is physically comforting the troubled person.
Telling him it's okay to cry
The woman is telling the person that it is okay to express emotions.
But he just sits and stares
Despite the woman's attempts, the person remains unresponsive.
The merciless moon outside
The surrounding environment is unyielding and unmoving.
Has nothing now he's come to realize
The person has realized that the environment is not capable of change.
Only the desolation he feels
The person feels overwhelmingly empty and hopeless.
The cold distance inside
There is a metaphorical distance and emotional isolation inside the person.
But you and I now
A shift in focus to a new perspective; the woman and the listener.
We can be alright
The artist and the listener can find a resolution to their problems.
Just hold on to what we know is true
The singer is encouraging the listener to focus on what they know to be factual and certain.
You and I now
Repeated to emphasize the partnership between the artist and the listener.
Though it's cold inside
Acknowledgment of difficult emotions and hardships within the listener.
Feel the tide turning
There is a change coming and the singer is optimistic that it will be positive.
While the priest just sits and weeps
Shifting focus to a new individual, namely a priest.
Lamenting the fact that he can see
Expressing sadness over being able to see the harsh realities of the world.
Darkness and light in so much detail
The priest is able to perceive the good and bad in explicit detail.
He has given himself over
The priest has surrendered or submitted himself to something.
Refusing what he knows to be real
The priest is rejecting something that he knows is true.
He turns away from every meal
The priest is refusing to partake in basic necessities for survival.
Starving himself of goodness
The priest is depriving himself of positivity and comfort.
He doesn't think he can heal
The priest feels resigned to his current state and does not believe he can recover.
Said the stranger to his dad
Shifting focus to a new character, a father and son.
And the witness was confused
Someone is watching but they do not understand what is happening.
He can't tell what is bad
The witness is uncertain about what is right or wrong.
Instead he runs up to the nearest girl
The son abandons his previous conversation to approach a young woman.
And he comments on her glorious curls
The son makes a flattering statement about the young woman's hair.
Says, "Darling come with me
The son invites the young woman to join him on an adventure of some kind.
I'll show you a whole new world"
He promises to show her something new and exciting.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: BENJAMIN WALTER DAVID LOVETT, EDWARD JAMES MILTON DWANE, MARCUS OLIVER JOHNSTONE MUMFORD, WINSTON AUBREY ALADAR MARSHALL
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