MUMFORD & SONS ANNOUNCE WILDER MIND FOR MAY 04
MUMFORD & SONS ANNOUNCE WILDER MIND FOR MAY 04 RELEASE
2015 Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers and Festival Dates Revealed
02 MARCH 2015 (Toronto, ON) – Mumford & Sons are pleased to announce the details of their forthcoming third album, Wilder Mind. Wilder Mind will be released in North America May 04 through Glassnote Records/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. Produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, HAIM, Florence & The Machine), the album features twelve new tracks, written collaboratively by the band in London, Brooklyn, and Texas. A number of the new songs were written and demoed at Aaron Dessner’s (The National) garage studios in Brooklyn. The band also returned to Eastcote Studios in London, where they recorded Sigh No More, for further writing and demo sessions. The album was recorded at AIR studios in London. This new album marks a significant departure for the young British band from their previous records, 2009’s Sigh No More, and 2012’s Babel, which are respectively certified 4x Platinum and 5x Platinum in Canada. The early sessions in New York and London witnessed a change in the band’s approach not just to writing and recording, but to texture and dynamics, too. There is a minimalist yet panoramic feel to the new album, whose sound Marcus Mumford describes as “a development, not a departure.” It came about by both accident, and by conscious decision. “Towards the end of the Babel tour, we’d always play new songs during soundchecks, and none of them featured the banjo, or a kick-drum,” says Marcus Mumford. “And demoing with Aaron meant that, when we took a break, we knew it wasn’t going to involve acoustic instruments. We didn’t say: ‘No acoustic instruments.’ But I think all of us had this desire to shake it up. The songwriting hasn’t changed drastically; it was led more by a desire to not do the same thing again. Plus, we fell back in love with drums! It’s as simple as that.” “It felt completely natural, though,” says Ben Lovett, “like it did when we started out. It was very much a case of, if someone was playing an electric guitar, drums were going to complement that best; and, sonically, it then made sense to add a synth or an organ. We chose instruments that played well off each other, rather than consciously trying to overhaul it.” In support of Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons have also announced the first details and line-ups for their 2015 Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers, which include New Jersey, Iowa, Washington, and Colorado. These accompany recent announcements of festival performances at Bonnaroo, Reading & Leeds Festivals, Open’er Festival, Bilbao BBK Live, and Nos Alive Festival, as well as a Canadian date at Squamish.
Wilder Mind Tracklisting:
- Tompkins Square Park
- Believe
- The Wolf
- Wilder Mind
- Just Smoke
- Monster
- Snake Eyes
- Broad-Shouldered Beasts
- Cold Arms
- Ditmas
- Only Love
- Hot Gates