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Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
FLAC 24bit/96kHz (tracks) | Cover Only | 1.08 GB | 48:40 minutes
Alternative Rock | Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Hosted On: NitroFlare

 Wilder Mind is the third studio album by British folk rock band Mumford & Sons. After working in their first two albums with Markus Dravs, the band decided to go in a different direction, and for their third album, they went to work with producer James Ford and The National's Aaron Dessner.



 Who could blame Mumford & Sons for running away from their signature banjo stomp? Come 2015, when Wilder Mind saw spring release, so many bands had copped their big-footed folk jamboree that Mumford & Sons could feel the straitjacket constricting, so it's not a surprise that the group decided to try on something new. A change in fashion isn't strange -- no band wants to be pigeonholed -- but the odd thing about Wilder Mind is now that everybody else sounds like Mumford & Sons, Mumford & Sons decide to sound like everybody else. Without their old-timey affectations, the band seems interchangeable with any number of blandly attractive AAA rockers, a group that favors sound over song -- a curious switch for a purportedly old-fashioned quartet. Sometimes, the band do swing for arena-filling hooks and connect -- the quietly escalating "Believe," the incessant surge of "The Wolf," "Ditmas," which is the only song here that would scale to bare-bones acoustic arrangements -- but usually they subsist on a simmer, letting their immaculate, tasteful rock bubble quietly without ever threatening to spill over the edge. Often, the persistent, moody murmur recalls a diluted Kings of Leon, a comparison that can't help but underscore how Mumford & Sons have made the journey from retro throwback to glistening modern construction. Where once they carved their music out of reclaimed wood, they're now all steel and glass -- a bit sleeker but also a bit chillier. Such a description suggests this is a big shift, but it's all surface: underneath that exterior, Wilder Mind is the same Mumford & Sons, peddling reasonably handsome reconstructions of times gone by. Reviewed by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of allmusic  



Track Listing:

01. Tompkins Square Park
02. Believe
03. The Wolf
04. Wilder Mind
05. Just Smoke
06. Monster
07. Snake Eyes
08. Broad-Shouldered Beasts
09. Cold Arms
10. Ditmas
11. Only Love
12. Hot Gates


Album Released: May 4, 2015


Personnel

 Marcus Mumford - lead vocals, electric guitar, drums
 Ted Dwane - vocals, acoustic bass, electric bass
 Ben Lovett - vocal, piano, keyboard, synthesiser
 Winston Marshall - vocals, electric guitar