{"id":6062,"date":"2025-04-07T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6062"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:57:11","slug":"the-british-folk-rockers-mumford-sons-back-to-their-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6062","title":{"rendered":"The British Folk-Rockers Mumford & Sons Back To Their Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

For their first album in seven years, and first as a trio, the British folk-rockers Mumford & Sons went back to their roots. RUSHMERE, their fifth album, is named after the pub in southwest London where Marcus Mumford, Ted Dwane, and Ben Lovett first got to know each other as friends and eventual creative collaborators.<\/p>\n

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They were humble days, coming years before tracks like \u201cLittle Lion Man\u201d helped define a strand of optimistic folk pop that dominated the early 2010s and influenced 2020s stadium-fillers like Noah Kahan and Zach Bryan.<\/p>\n

RUSHMERE pulls back from the pomp and splendor of folk-rock stardom and gets back to basics: furiously played guitars and rousing vocal harmonies, with Marcus Mumford\u2019s sincere, resolute burr leading the way. Produced by Nashville straight-shooter Dave Cobb, who\u2019s known for his unfussy, song-forward approach to the studio, RUSHMERE places the powerful songwriting and strong musical chemistry of Mumford & Sons front and center. \u201cMonochrome\u201d is a hushed hymn to a long-gone muse, with Mumford rueful about time\u2019s passage yet generous to someone who has faded to \u201cmonochrome out of sight.\u201d The stirring \u201cSurrender\u201d is propelled by stomps and strummed strings, moving briskly forward even as Mumford sings of his world-weariness. \u201cBlood on the Page,\u201d a collaboration with next-generation folk-rocker Madison Cunningham, is delicate and ghostly in a way that amplifies the pain in its lyrics.<\/p>\n

\u201cTime, don\u2019t let us down again\/\u2019Cause I won\u2019t wait,\u201d the trio wails near the end of the title track, with ferocious banjos driving home the plea\u2019s urgency. It\u2019s a sly callback to \u201cI Will Wait,\u201d the 2012 song that cemented Mumford & Sons as leaders of the 2010s\u2019 folk-rock vanguard. But it\u2019s also a signal of the urgency and hope underpinning RUSHMERE, making it a taut, potent statement of reintroduction that doubles as a declaration of intent to stick around.<\/p>\n

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For their first album in seven years, and first as a trio, the British folk-rockers Mumford & Sons went back to their roots. RUSHMERE, their fifth album, is named after the pub in southwest London where Marcus Mumford, Ted Dwane, and Ben Lovett first got to know each other as friends and eventual creative collaborators. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations","category-streamapse-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}