Post Tagged with: "Mumford & Sons"
Introducing… Dry The River
Many of their songs build from a plucked guitar into roaring, soaring, heavy choruses that drip with golden harmonies. The fact they don’t ponse around in waistcoats and tweed also supports the fact that these guys occupy the rockier side of folk-rock.
Download: Mumford & Sons – Ghosts That We Knew
It’s what people know and love Mumford & Sons for: hushed acoustic guitars and Marcus Mumford’s emotive vocal surrounded by a wave of harmonies.
Duck & Cover No.10
So, in the tenth instalment of Duck & Cover, we have WTGR favourites Mumford & Sons. Already the third time that the plucky four-piece have appeared in the feature, this time they are tackling the doom-rock of White Lies’ Unfinished Business. Taken from the groups’ recent jaunt toAustralian radio station Triple J, it’s just a [...]
Latitude 2010 (part 2)
The final day of a festival always arrives too soon, and Latitude 2010 was no exception. Over the last 72 hours we had been spoilt with great sets from such luminaries The National and Belle and Sebastian along with eye catching turns from newcomers like The Kissaway Trail and Frightened Rabbit. However in terms of [...]
Duck & Cover No.7
On Monday WTGR favourites Mumford & Sons stopped by BBC Radio 1 to play both their new single The Cave and a rather brilliant version of Vampire Weekend’s Cousins for the ever wonderful Sara Cox. Sticking to form, it starts off rather slowly before kicking into overdrive upon the age-old command of an enthusiastic “1,2,3,4!!”. [...]
Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons should need no introduction by now – their debut Sigh No More climbed to no.7 in the UK charts, and amazingly claimed top spot down in Australia. Deservedly, momentum is clearly still with them; they are soon to embark on a sold out victory tour of the UK before heading back out [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2009 – No.5
No.5 Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More Mumford & Sons are on odd bunch – four Londoners in thrall to the banjo-plucking bluegrass of the American South. On paper it shouldn’t work, however upon listening to their debut album Sigh No More, it quickly becomes clear that it does. Sigh No More ushers the [...]
Duck & Cover – no.1 & no.2
In a semi-regular feature Duck & Cover, When The Gramophone Rings will be introducing you to an array of cover versions from around this hear globe. First up is Mumford & Sons tackling one of the greatest movie songs of all time. Not only is 1973′s Robin Hood a much underated arrow in Disney‘s quiver, [...]
