Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (2010) CD [5/10]

Mumford & Sons build their music around big builds, banjo flourishes and strained and pained vocals. It kind of sounds like they're trying to be the Frames...but aren't quite as melancholy. They write decently catchy songs and have some hopeful lyrics in amongst the moping which is refreshing. The three singles "Sigh No More", "The Cave" and "Little Lion Man" and the additional "Roll Away Your Stone" are easily the best tracks with the rest of the album sounding like less successful versions of said tracks. That is my biggest complaint. It all sounds cut from the same cloth, but instead of that contributing to and overarching sound it merely leaves me dry and bored. Some decent tracks worth listening to though.