Babel

This sophomore LP dials Mumford’s volume knob several distinct notches past the place it’s sat for the last three years. Babel reveals a band happy to remain entirely Mumford – although a larger, smoother Mumford, offering fresh nuances and textures while emboldened by the promise of the initial mission. The group is still skyrocketing into success, and these four gentlemen are in a powerful creative zone as they pack another album with sing-alongs.

Ben Lovett explained in a fuse interview his take on the album’s name:

We kind of settled on the name Babel because it had sort of multifaceted connotations to it that we liked. We could all invest something into it and take a lot from the different meanings of it. So we wouldn’t actually prescribe any one particular thing, one element of it. It’s a very loaded word, very bold word. And for those reasons it’s a pretty good title for an album. It’s pretty hard naming albums.