The Pootling Album Of The Year 2009: Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons So, I’ve been going on for a while, but I have at last reached my favourite album of the year. Oddly, it’s one that hasn’t been on as many end-of-year lists as I would have expected. Sigh No More is an astonishing debut album. At times understated and quiet, it’s also an album that knows how to throw a musical wall of sound at you at a moment’s notice. The first track of the album, also called Sigh No More, shows you everything they’re capable of. It builds slowly, with some light, delicate harmonies before, at the drop of a folky hat, throwing you the full works of drums, guitars, stand-up bass, banjos and everything else they can get their hands on. And wow, what a sound. Mumford & Sons started life as the backing band for equally talented Laura Marling. There’s no way that Marcus Mumford’s voice should have been left doing backing alone though. It’s a voice that’s affecting, dripping with emotion and just throatily magnificent. Few bands make an album so soaringly, achingly beautiful in their entire careers. Mumford & Sons have knocked one out at the their first attempt. Wow. Spotify Link

The Pootling Album Of The Year 2009: Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons

So, I’ve been going on for a while, but I have at last reached my favourite album of the year. Oddly, it’s one that hasn’t been on as many end-of-year lists as I would have expected.

Sigh No More is an astonishing debut album. At times understated and quiet, it’s also an album that knows how to throw a musical wall of sound at you at a moment’s notice.

The first track of the album, also called Sigh No More, shows you everything they’re capable of. It builds slowly, with some light, delicate harmonies before, at the drop of a folky hat, throwing you the full works of drums, guitars, stand-up bass, banjos and everything else they can get their hands on. And wow, what a sound.

Mumford & Sons started life as the backing band for equally talented Laura Marling. There’s no way that Marcus Mumford’s voice should have been left doing backing alone though. It’s a voice that’s affecting, dripping with emotion and just throatily magnificent.

Few bands make an album so soaringly, achingly beautiful in their entire careers. Mumford & Sons have knocked one out at the their first attempt. Wow.

Spotify Link