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Mumford & Sons came together in late 2007 in the West London acoustic and folk-revival scene that also produced Laura Marling, Noah and the Whale, and Johnny Flynn — a loose collective of musicians playing weekly nights at the Bosun's Locker on the King's Road and the Old Queen's Head in Islington. Marcus Mumford had been drumming in Laura Marling's touring band; Ben Lovett had been running the Communion club night with Kev Jones; Winston Marshall played banjo and guitar in a side project called Captain Kennedy; Ted Dwane had been a touring bassist around the same circuit. The four formed as Mumford & Sons in December 2007, took their working name from a notional family firm Marcus had floated as a joke, and spent 2008 playing folk clubs and acoustic stages with a setup built around a single condenser microphone — Marcus on a kick drum he played while standing and strumming an acoustic, Winston on banjo, Ted on stand-up bass, Ben on a battered upright piano or accordion, and all four locked around the mic for the harmonised choruses. Sigh No More, recorded with producer Markus Dravs and released on Island in October 2009, built slowly — Little Lion Man hit the UK Top 40, The Cave became the breakout American single, Winter Winds carried the radio rotation, and by mid-2010 the record was top five in the UK, top three in the US, multi-platinum in both, and the band were headlining the Railroad Revival Tour across the American Southwest in a vintage rail-car caravan alongside Edward Sharpe and Old Crow Medicine Show. Babel followed in September 2012 — Markus Dravs again producing, the lineup unchanged, and the songs (I Will Wait, Whispers in the Dark, Hopeless Wanderer, Babel, Below My Feet) playing as a confident, stadium-aware extension of the Sigh No More sound rather than a departure. The record debuted at number one in both the UK and the US, sold more than 600,000 copies in its first week in America (the biggest debut of 2012), and went on to win the Grammy for Album of the Year at the 2013 ceremony — the first folk-leaning record to take the top prize in more than a decade. The Babel touring cycle ran through summer 2013 and concluded with a public sabbatical announcement. Wilder Mind, released in May 2015, was the band's great compositional reset. Aaron Dessner of The National produced the bulk of the record in his Garage studio in Brooklyn; the banjo, the kick drum, and the upright bass were set aside in favour of full drum kit, electric guitars, electric bass, and an arena-rock palette closer to Snow Patrol or Kings of Leon than anything the band had done before. The record debuted at number one in the UK and the US, sold strongly without matching the Babel peak, and split the audience — half embraced the wider sound, half mourned the banjo. Delta (November 2018), produced by Paul Epworth and again predominantly electric with selective acoustic returns, debuted at number one in the UK and in the top five in the US. Winston Marshall stepped back in March 2021 and formally departed that June, leaving the band a three-piece core of Mumford, Lovett, and Dwane. Marcus Mumford released a solo record, Self-Titled, in September 2022 (produced by Blake Mills, featuring Phoebe Bridgers, Brandi Carlile, Clairo, and Monica Martin) and toured it through 2022 and 2023. Rushmere — the band's fifth studio album, released in late March 2025 on Island and Glassnote — was a return to the acoustic toolkit, the harmonised chorus, and the road-band approach, with the three principals augmented by a rotating cast of live multi-instrumentalists. The record debuted at number one in the UK album chart and inside the top five in the US, and launched the Rushmere Tour — the current touring cycle, which has played UK and European stadium and arena dates alongside North American arena and amphitheatre routings. Across the run Mumford & Sons have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, won the Grammy for Album of the Year, won multiple Brit Awards, and built one of the most loyal cross-Atlantic touring audiences of any band of their generation.

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