Mumford and Sons

there's prob a separate discussion to be had about elbow/editors/glasvegas glumpen inanity

add one doves

Add one Coldplay.

so huge they block out the sun

oh christ, i these two guys the other day who were arguing about buying touted tickets for elbow @ £100. one was saying it was ethically wrong to buy from touts, the other that hell, someone will do it if i don't. elbow. jesus.

met

was hoping the missing verb would be "punched"

lol

that must be what passes for moral philosophy in asphodel

sooooo who can find the glummest band picture

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conventiom for bereaved charity muggers

n/m

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Lowline are not to be confused with the bands Lowgold or Lowlife or the album Lowlife by another Manchester group you may have heard of called New Order. They are an unsigned act from Britain's premier rock city with some fairly heavyweight support from the likes of The Enemy's Tom Clarke ("the best new band in the country") and The Verve's Nick McCabe ("Lowline make timeless music like no one can at the moment. Music with balls.")

Should have called themselves "Lowballs" then.

searched lowgold and got those reets

they're not even trying any more

Lowline are intense and sinister yet totally up lifting. A group of mates in their early twenties who formed in the spring of 2007, they spent the rest of that year writing, locked away in a warehouse in Manchester’s less-than-glamorous Ancoats district. There are flashes of inspiration from cult legends The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine, but they strike a rare balance between razor sharp rock and roll, and epic shoegaze. Lowline’s intense guitar sound is underpinned by tribal house tinged drums and fuzzed up bass lines, all combine to make something with energy, atmosphere and spirit.

Their sound embodies the atmosphere of their City, whilst remaining distinctive and innovative, a combination that sets them apart and shows that this is the start of something special.

Urgh look at all these dour fat earnest northern tubbos in big jackets

From time to time I wonder which band I like puts me most out of step with ILX consensus. I think it's probably Elbow.

That's a whole thread of it's own.

i hate this sort of handwringing desperation for a quasi-religious experience at a festival that these guys represent. the arcade fire are like the godfathers of this thing but mumford obv a lot worse. i bet people love this band in ireland.

weirdly just found this trying to find another article....jesus, http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/11/mumford-sons-sigh-more

The pub is filling up: City boys in pinstriped suits, women clutching dry white wines; candles are lit on upstairs tables, voices rise to fill the room. In a back booth, far away from the clamour of the bar, four fastidiously attired young men nurse pints of ale. Mumford & Sons are here on a break from a nearby studio, where they have been rehearsing in ­preparation for an upcoming tour that will take them from Australia to the US and back to the UK for a run of sold-out dates, and which will likely cement their reputation as one of the best live bands in Britain.

the rest of that landfill thread is just shit music for retards, this is the living end

The pub is filling up: City boys in pinstriped suits, women clutching dry white wines; candles are lit on upstairs tables, voices rise to fill the room. Make no mistake: this is a seasoned crowd of gig goers and they will have known that Mumford and Sons will provide a genuine night's entertainment.

In a back booth, far away from the clamour of the bar, four fastidiously attired young men nurse pints of ale. There can be no doubt Mumford & Sons are here on a break from a nearby studio, where they have been rehearsing in ­preparation for an upcoming tour that will take them from Australia to the US and back to the UK for a run of sold-out dates, and which will likely cement their reputation as one of the best live bands in Britain.

BARTONULT

isn't laura barton like the rising star of the hilarious 'g2' section of the guardian?

The crowd danced and whooped and cheered and sang along, and when the set was over and the night's "special guest", the R&B artist Mr Hudson, appeared, the applause swiftly turned to boos. "I think it's a lot to do with the time – people enjoying rootsier music, reacting to manufactured music," posits Mumford quietly.

Springsteen is a crafty campaigner and he will have known his music can send men weeping along the weary way. Try telling that to a solitary candy floss seller in Southend however, he will be absolutely delighted.

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they're prob crap too, but there are 3/5 reasons why the vermin who <3 the mumfords might react like that

the rest of that landfill thread is just shit music for retards, this is the living end

Calm down dude, sometimes people like music you hate, it'll be okay though.

if u r in london in 2k11 then the depravity is more apparent

"I wrote a bunch of songs about a time and a place a while ago, and I've felt like they haven't lasted," ­Mumford explains. "If we were singing about wearing Reebok ­trainers in a certain area … I'm not saying it's bad, I love songs that do that, I love Arctic Monkeys, but I personally can't do it." The lyrics for Sigh No More he describes as "a ­deliberately spiritual thing but ­deliberately not a ­religious thing. I think faith is ­something beautiful, and ­something real, and ­something ­universal, or it can be."

this is the sound of the restoration, gloopily earnest paeans to antediluvian 'values'

there is a lineage of this sort of ruritanian volkish drivel going back to the arts&crafts shit of the late 19th century

nazi cunts fuck off etc

nakhchivan is like our very own FOX pundit

right can someone explain why people are so readily associating this band with tories? are they actually tories themselves? i don't get it

i bet people love this band in ireland.

Of course they do.

right can someone explain why people are so readily associating this band with tories? are they actually tories themselves? i don't get it

1. They're posh. LOL "Marcus Mumford" etc.
2. They dress like latter-day country squires.
3. David Cameron probably likes them, right?
4. Er...
5. That's it?

really? christ almighty there's enough to hate about this band's music w/o projecting politics on them/making shit up, smh

they're hardly alone in being posh musicians or dressing like twats, and if we're going to target bands that we actually KNOW david cameron likes let's fucking start with THE SMITHS

David Cameron is the hippest Prime Minister Britain's ever had

Well, both Morrissey and Marr told Cameron to fuck off iirc, although Moz of course dressed it up in a great deal of flouncing and "do you see what I did there"-isms which made his open letter even more embarrassing than Cameron talking about music

yeah the art of pretend disbelief ppl came out with at the news that someone from 'the establishment' might enjoy a band who are (a) very very widely known and (b) not altogether musically challenging was... tragicomic

would've thought morrissey's views on immigration would make him a perfect fit for the conservative party tbh

really i'm just curious how toryism's been so widely projected on to mumford & sons when it's not overtly present in either their music or their public statements (afaik, am not an expert on their oeuvre by any means) - suspected it was just lazy thinking and this is being confirmed

cameron being an emiliana torrini fan is most o_0 to me cuz you'd prob have to have a genuine interest in music to even be aware of her

(fits though, she's like if björk was bland and middle-of-the-road - iirc she had one or two decent songs though)

I have previously noted that when I questioned Cameron on the last album he had bought (during a passing encounter at the BBC), he came back with a band so hip (Californian alt rockers Modest Mouse), I had to look them up.

lol

Neil McCormick is the Telegraph's chief rock music critic.

Neil McCormick is the Telegraph's chief rock music critic.

never forget: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3645201/Bono-told-me-Your-song-needs-to-be-heard-now.html

xp!

It was clear we were facing an indie tory PM from the point where he picked Perfect Circle by REM on Desert Island Discs, no?