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Image Credit: Austin Hargrave “We’d been itching for a long time to do something different, and we picked the right time to do that,” Marcus Mumford tells Billboard. “Well, maybe it was a bit late. Because we’d been a band almost as long as The Beatles, and this is only our third record, you know?”
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Image Credit: Austin Hargrave “People forget that if you’re going to write songs about living, you’ve got to live,” says keyboard player Ben Lovett. “You get to travel and meet people [on tour], but you can’t really write songs about that.”
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Image Credit: Austin Hargrave “We missed each other,” says bassist Ted Dwane sheepishly about their 2013 hiatus after five straight years of touring and performing. “We started getting creative, and when we have that, we instinctively turn toward each other.”
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Image Credit: Austin Hargrave “They’re rockers,” says Daniel Glass, president of their label, Glassnote. “Yes, they had banjos; yes, they had kick drums; but when they come into town, it’s a rock’n’roll experience. It’s late nights. They live to tour and to play.”