Marcus Mumford releases the album with pre-Mumford & Sons trauma

Marcus Mumford releases the album with pre-Mumford & Sons trauma


The leader of the English folk band arrives, on his first solo album, to talk about discoveries and reveal the violence of his childhood

at 31 years old, Marco Mumford he began to see his ship crash. or Mumford & Sons, one of the most spectacular English neofolk groups to emerge in the 2000s, selling more than 8 million copies of the first of their four albums alone, entered a grueling concert tour that resulted in Marcus collapsing from alcohol and binge. To make matters worse, the important element in building the group’s folk sound, banjoist Winston Marshall, praised the book by far-right journalist Andy Ngo, titled Exposed: Within Antifa’s radical plan to destroy democracyand fell out of favor.

In a mess and with a lot more weight than usual, Marcus decided to make a solo album to talk about another traumatic destruction that not even his mother was aware of: a sexual abuse suffered in childhood, a terrifying episode that has ended up becoming fuel for the most beautiful song of this year: cannibal.

your album homonym there is sadness, revelation, occasional emotional outbursts and a lot of poetry. It’s nice to hear, light and almost without the folk remnants of Mumford & Sons, something so good for those who got mad at the “Catholic band” and so frustrating for those who loved it all.

Grace, after cannibalis the second great song, a discovery that puts Marcus in the place he was looking for even on the band’s latest albums. Forewarning, Better at the top, Only child And howwith Brandi Carlile, they are beautiful songs, even without the magic of Mumford & Sons.

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