Mumford & Sons via Bob Lefsetz

Thanks to Travis for intro­duc­ing me to Mum­ford & Sons ear­lier this spring. This review of their con­cert in LA by Bob Lef­setz should help to con­vince you to pick up their album if you haven’t already:

Mum­ford & Sons’ music sounds authen­tic. There are no synths, no man­u­fac­tured beats. It sounds like life. And last time I checked, we’re all human. Don’t you want some­thing to touch your heart and soul? Great times are ahead. Acts like Mum­ford & Sons are lead­ing the way. There are no rules. Prac­tice, inno­vate, shoot for the stars. Do it your own way. Know that the audi­ence is ready. Noth­ing touches peo­ple like music, no movie, no TV show, no Face­book wall. Get it right and peo­ple will bond to you for­ever. Mum­ford & Sons came to play last night. And so did the audi­ence. It’s not about show, it’s about com­mu­nion, a rela­tion­ship. The band wore no out­fits, per­formed no stunts, they just played music. And that was enough. More than enough. Because it’s not about what you see, but what you hear.

Just so you’re fore­warned, track 7 (Lit­tle Lion Man), has a bad word in it. No, actu­ally it has a bad word a whole bunch of times. As in the cho­rus is made up of say­ing a bad word a lot. But it’s done in four part har­mony which I think redeems it, right?