Mumford and Sons

also i just listened to 4-5 sings of theirs,

these guys seriously make fleet foxes sound like fuckin bob dylan woodie guthrie level genius

mark e. smith otmfm upthread

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― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:24 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

This is now what I think of when I hear this band's name.

So in a few days they conquered the world or something?

http://www.pinglewood.com/2008/February/images/2420.jpg

It was forbidden and perhaps I am glad.

they had the fourth best selling album in flanders last year

They won the Brit Award for Best British Album, dressed like this:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51283000/jpg/_51283282_51283281.jpg

guy in black coat looks like the guy from grizzly bear

Um...what's with the drunk guy holding a cloth dildo?

they remind of me the band kings of nuthin from boston

xp that's the new Brit Award trophy, designed by Vivienne Westwood.

Americans always go for stupid shit like this (Exhibit A = The Cranberries). The really weird bit will be when M&S* rapidly grow into the biggest band in Japan, India and Iran.

*DO YOU SEE????????????

It used to be that England would export our unwanted Manchester indie rockers, now it's our copious surplus of beardy folk bastards.

Can't help thinking that if Chris Martin and Thom Yorke had just manned the fuck up a little a few years ago, then a dangerous precedent would not have been set and we'd have avoided all this.

english pop music is shit

Yeah, I'm listening to Tasmin Archer and weeping.

you always do that when spurs win

i mean 'there will always be exceptions' like tinie etc but it does seem worse than usual/ever rite now

English pop music is shit at the moment more as a result of production trends than anything else. If and when the world moves on from "whack in a big Phil Collins sample with filter-disco keyboards" we might suddenly see them coming with something amazing.

not sure how that relates to / explains the mumford debacle

MC Mumford and the Dubstep Sons

tinie still only has one and a half good tracks

i don't really like US pop these days either tho (in the charts i do like 'lights on', 'rolling in the deep' and maybe that latest chase & status thing at a push tho uk-wise)

Had a really annoying Grammys experience thinking that I could listen to Archer of Loaf (All the Nations Airports) while watching with the sound off. But my (American) girlfriend asked me if I liked Mumford, so we turned the volume up. See, she likes it. I think a huge number of people do (obv., no 1 itunes etc). It hits a lot of right buttons for people: a bit different, a bit "real music," a bit "live and crescendo," lyrics that sound like they mean something, a bit of mystery somehow (even the name, for Americans). I imagine, even, that Americans bedazzled by Grammys see this as somehow "Irish music" - with its real guys in a hub sweating and getting carried away with the musicality of it all. There's no much "art" in it, more "soul" - hence Mumford getting a great boost after these awards, and Arcade Fire very little at all.

english pop music is shit

― the philosopher named after a whiskey (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:25 (24 minutes ago)

Yeah, I'm listening to Tasmin Archer and weeping.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:26 (23 minutes ago)

Don't blame this sleeping satellite (of Europe)

I hate myself for reading the evangelical Xian background thing as explanatory of why they suck so much massive balls but reading that tonight made total sense. The worst sub-Waterboys bullshit I've ever heard.

Can't help thinking that if Chris Martin and Thom Yorke had just manned the fuck up a little a few years ago, then a dangerous precedent would not have been set and we'd have avoided all this.

disagree-- they've been a poor influences on other genres, sure, but this irish folk-rock bullshit doesn't really cop from coldplay, of all things. btw, mumford & sons makes coldplay sound like fuckin peter gabriel-era genesis, dead serious

From Twitter

@WadeyWade Ian Wade
EXCLUSIVE MUMFORD FOOTAGE OF SECOND ALBUM SESSIONS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCusJRcbhEo&feature=related

^^^ JUST SOUNDS LIKE THAT IRISH MUSIC MATE

srsly guys Diddly-Aye-Di-Doh not the soul province of Ireland, Scumford sound like a shit version of the Wurzels if anything.

that's connaught iirc

Much to my chagrin, nearly every single one of my wife's friends has cornered me during social events to say something along the lines of, "I know you are into music, you would love Mumford & Sons! They are amazing!". Gah.

One of my best friends was the same at Glastonbury last year. "How can you not like Mumford & Sons?" he said, genuinely incredulous. So I drowned him in a portaloo.

Bonus points if it was the Manics private one.

So I drowned him in a portaloo.

sadly if we did this to every mumford fans, we would lose millions of ppl

WHY IS THIS BAND GOOD

I would dearly love to hear Nicky Wire on the subject of Mumford & Sons. Geoff Barrow's not a fan:

http://twitter.com/#!/jetfury

really?? i would've pegged geoff as a superfan, that's surprising!

I heard these on Radio 4 the other week. Much talk of their diverse influences and all the different instruments they use/d blablabla, some mini interview w the singer, very boring and non-consequential. Because I like the name of the band (it wd be an awesome name for an ivor cutleresque band i think) I listened carefully when they played some of the music, I hoped it would be good. What i heard reminded me of many support bands I have seen in the past, especially around the time the waterboys were big. You'd see an acoustic guitar and a fiddle carried on to the stage and your heart would sink, oh no, god, THIS trash again. I could not remember the tune of the Mumford piece, it was like it erased itself from my brain as it passed, leaving a vague memory of a drab, somewhat folksy sound.

In some way, they remind me of The Darkness, in that I have seen many bands who sound like "that", some who do a better job, even, so why is this lot big? I don't get it.

Marketing and God.

(Which should be the name of their next album.)

I hope this is not perceived as sexist, but it's my impression that most of the people who are crazy about this sort of thing are women. I've always wondered why. Am I right?

I saw them live at a festival last year and their appeal (though not to me) was suddenly really obvious - folky instrumentation + rootsy image + soaring Coldplayesque arena-rock melodies + vaguely religious intensity = £££

Raggle-Taggle and Hum

I understand the appeal of Coldplayesque arena-rock melodies + vaguely religious intensity, but what's so appealing about "folky instrumentation + rootsy image"? This is not a rhetorical question. I am genuinely curious. It is such a turn off for me.

I hope this is not perceived as sexist, but it's my impression that most of the people who are crazy about this sort of thing are women. I've always wondered why. Am I right?

even their male fans have womanly characteristics iirc (ex: Ned's hair)

lol

You're a sick man.

xpost They seem to satisfy some craving for rural authenticity that I didn't even realise was there. What to me is a hindrance - the fact they look like they're playing a harvest fair or going on a grouse shoot - is to many people a huge asset. Don't ask me why this appeals at a time when the country is being shafted by people very much like them. At least the Levellers had some counterculture cachet.

Which is why only dirty smelly hippies liked the Levs but Scumford have clean-cut mass appeal

xpost -- Logical conclusion of all the handcraft/of the earth/'real things' hoohah over the past few years. Basically you've got all these people who want the 19th century plus penicillin.

huge loooool @ harvest fair/grouse shoot comment, so otm

They have the same appeal as Innocent Smoothies and the Abel & Cole organic delivery box.

Thought this line from HMV rep Gennaro Castaldo re: their post-Brits sales boost had it about right:

"With their distinctive sound, Mumford and Sons may already be firm favourites with students and with much of Middle England, but this success will now help cement their appeal with an even broader audience."