This week's music previews

Mumford & Sons, Glasgow & ManchesterIn the dramatis personae of contemporary British folk artists, we have our passionate heroine (Laura Marling), and our lovelorn hero (Noah And The Whale's Charlie Fink). In the persons of Mumford & Sons, meanwhile, we have our rude mechanicals: once bit-part players (main man Marcus Mumford was Marling's drummer), they've gone on to win affection by sounding intriguingly old yet still familiar. They use banjos, mandolins and other tools you'd find in the old-...

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