Most sympathetic quote in Rolling Stone's July 2015 piece on Mumford & Sons

For some reason my colleagues like Mumford & Sons a lot and see it as GREAT BANJO MUSIC and now we're hearing it in the office aaaarhg, if they were really into Keane I'd know what better versions of Keane to play them etc. but I don't really know what the good version of M&S is - anyone?

I have no answer, but I made it into a thread -- Artists who are similar less annoying versions of someone annoying