Mumford & Sons new album Wilder Mind is a little slow in spots.
Much has been made of Mumford & Sons' new sound -- dialling back the banjo and turning up the indie rock.
But forget the differences between Wilder Mind and the former folk-rockers' previous two albums, this isn't actually a bad album, if a little slow in spots.
The first three
tracks are the strongest songs here. Opener Tompkins Square Park is an atmospheric War on Drugs-esque rocker, lead single Believe enters Coldplay meets Kings of Leon territory and on second single The Wolf the lads get loud with a thumping bass line.
It's all still recognisably Mumford & Sons though - due in large part to Marcus Mumford's achy-breaky vocals full of emotion, and an arena-sized epicness that pervades the album.
At times it could be 80s M.O.R. FM rock, at others 2000s indie Brit rock - but it's not a bad combination.
