Mumford & Sons have revealed that they have almost finished work on their second album.
Mumford & Sons are huge. Like, massive.
The band can pull in huge crowds across the globe, with debut album ‘Sigh No More’ remaining a fixture on the American charts. Work on a follow up is progressing, with Mumford & Sons recently giving fans an update.
Chatting with MTV News, Mumford & Sons frontman Ben Lovett said: “We are in the final stages, we’re not finished, we don’t quite know the exact tracklisting.”
“We have kind of road-tested some songs, and we have picked up some new songs and dropped some ones that people might have thought we were going to be putting on the record. We just want to make a record that’s cohesive and one that we feel represents us best right now.”
Continuing, Lovett explained that Mumford & Sons are not working to a set release date. “There just isn’t (a release date yet). We can’t even say that any particular song is definitely on the record, because we just don’t know. But we’re being urgent with it, we’re trying very hard.”
Fancy a bit more information? Late last year Mumford & Sons gave an interview to Rolling Stone, in which bass player Ted Dwane coined a new genre to cover their new material. “(It’s) certainly more mature, I’d say,” he says.
“The second record is just a reflection of our mindsets, where we’re all at. It’s doom folk, kind of like Black Sabbath meets Nick Drake.”
‘Doom Folk’? Be careful what you wish for…
Mumford & Sons are currently in the studio, but are due to headline this summer’s RockNess festival.
