This year the Glastonbury Festival was brought to a close by the indie folk band Mumford and Sons.
Earlier in 2013 they won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year with their second album, Babel, which was the fastest-selling album of 2012. Frontman Marcus Mumford must have been overjoyed, having told NME that he feared it would be a ‘disappointing second child’, living in the shadow of their first album, Sigh No More, which won the BRIT Award for British Album of the Year in 2011 and has gone four times platinum.
Old-fashioned fun
Mumford and Sons seemed to have gained their incredible worldwide success by old-fashioned means: they create exuberant, rowdy hoe-downs for their fans to enjoy. Energetic live performances are at the core of their appeal, so much so that fans had to wait two years for a second album while the band picked up their banjos and raucously stomped their feet throughout the festival scene.
