![]() ![]() ![]() Mumfords were once adept at uniting disparate influences. Distressingly, it’s also tinged with hip-hop: the stumbling beat of Rose of Sharon juxtaposes fey harmonies and Marcus Mumford proclaiming, “E’er our lives entwined.” It’s less Hamilton-inspired mashup than pure Spotifycore, a genre mess reaching for pan-playlist appeal. The screwed sprite-like vocal effects of Picture You and Darkness Visible’s indistinct dystopian miasma (soundtracking a reading from Paradise Lost!) suggest a new identity crisis for a band who spent their last album overhauling their agrarian aesthetic to make like the War on Drugs. ![]() M umford & Sons referenced Talk Talk and Jai Paul as they recorded their fourth album, but the electronic touches that emerge on Delta speak less of those noted pioneers than they do synthetic nuisances Alt-J. ![]()
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