Mumford & Sons have announced a new album, Wilder Mind, but it won’t be the same sound we’re used to hearing from the Grammy-winning band.
In their first album in three years, the band will ditch the banjos and go electric. In a release, Marcus Mumford said they simply wanted to switch up their sound.
“Towards the end of the Babel tour, we’d always play new songs during soundchecks, and none of them featured the banjo, or a kick-drum,” he explained, MTV News reports.
He added when they decided to take a hiatus, “we knew it wasn’t going to involve acoustic instruments. We didn’t say: ‘No acoustic instruments.’ But I think all of us had this desire to shake it up. The songwriting hasn’t changed drastically; it was led more by a desire to not do the same thing again. Plus, we fell back in love with drums. It’s as simple as that.”
Mumford & Sons released the track list for Wilder Mind, which includes 12 songs.
After wrapping the tour for Babel, the band said they looked forward to being “free of schedules” for a while. They recorded the new album in Brooklyn, New York and it will be out on May 4.
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