Following on from their 2009 debut Sigh No More, which
went platinum four times in the UK, three times in Australia and twice
in the United States, Babel captures the ferocious live energy of the
four-piece, and is not without its tender moments.
Written in Nashville, south London and Somerset, several songs on
Babel were also recorded live. "When you're in a room with headphones
and microphones and no one else, you play it quite differently to how
you play it live", says Marcus Mumford, the band's lead vocalist,
drummer and guitarist. Alongside band mates Ben Lovett (keys, accordion, drums), Ted Dwane (string bass, drums, guitar) and Winston Marshall (banjo, dobro, guitar), Mumford & Sons have spent the best part of the last three years touring feverishly, and show no signs of slowing down.
