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Mumford & Sons: Rushmere review – back to dreary basics
A return to their inglorious past for the British folk rockers comes served with an extra helping of self-indulgence
Yet listening to Rushmere, one wonders whether the world might be a better place had every member of the band felt obliged to quit three years earlier, when news broke that they had hosted Jordan Peterson at their studio. There’s a distinct back-to-basics feel to the album, the drearily unappealing (relative) experimentalism of 2018’s Delta ditched in favour of the grating folk hoedowns that first made their name or utterly insipid balladry. It’s so miserable that the irritating uptempo songs that recall 2012’s Babel(the title track, Surrender, Carry On) come across as a welcome relief.
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