“It’s never easy for an artist to extend their early successes. Becoming a sudden sensation has its advantages, of course, leapfrogging as you do over the competition and gain the attention of the masses. Yet, it also manifests often undue expectations and scrutiny over every last step you make in the future, setting a high bar that can be difficult to ascend later on. It’s an intimidating tightro”
“There’s a track on Mumford & Sons eclectic fourth record, ‘Delta’, that has three banjos layered on top of one another. It’s called ‘Woman’ and is, somewhat improbably, a foray into slinky R&B. There are some tracks on this album that contain up to seven banjos, but you’d never know, given that they’re obscured, recorded live and then sampled at super-producer Paul Epworth’s north London studio. F”
“Having shed the beardy affect and folksy shuffle, the band could now slip mostly unnoticed between Imagine Dragons and twenty one pilots, but their newly palatable sound could really use more quirks.”
“Experimental new album takes the band’s sound to gloomy extremes”
