The band that was supposed to be on a hiatus, Mumford and Sons, couldn't keep away from the studio for too long. After weeks of speculation following some headlining festival gigs, today (March 2), Mumford and Sons announced its third studio album, Wilder Mind, and made one other big revelation: the banjo-ridden folk band is going electric.
Wilder Mind will me out on May 4, according to Rolling Stone, and it will sound like an all new Mumford and Sons.
With phrases like "power chords," synthesizers in the studio and bands like U2 name checked as a similar sound, it's safe to say that Wilder Mind will be a far cry from Sigh No More and Babel. But, that's exactly what Mumford and Sons saw themselves doing all along.
"We felt that doing the same thing, or the same instrumentation again, just wasn't for us," frontman Marcus Mumford told Rolling Stone. "We've got a broader taste in music than just that." Adds Dwane, "None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of Babel 2. It was always going to be different."
The lead single, "Believe" is due to be sent to radio on March 9. Until then, check out the full Wilder Mind tracklist below:
01. Tompkins Square Park
02. Believe
03. The Wolf
04. Wilder Mind
05. Just Smoke
06. Monster
07. Snake Eyes
08. Broad-Shouldered Beasts
09. Cold Arms
10. Ditmas
11. Only Love
12. Hot Gates
Wilder Mind is Mumford and Sons' third studio album and the immediate follow-up to its 2012 effort Babel, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2013.
