Mumford and Sons – review

Roundhouse, LondonMarcus Mumford is likely to be found starving, bleeding, dying, sighing, fading, sinning, hopeless, "in the dark" or – as the new song Broken Crown puts it – "crawling on my belly under the sun". Lyrically, not much has changed between Mumford and Sons' debut album and the new one, Babel, premiered tonight at the iTunes festival. But the shiny, statuesque, A-list celebrity on stage appears to be a spokesperson for generalised human woe, and the crowd bond immediately, stomp...

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