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“We wanted to do something unashamed,”<br />
says Ben Lovett. “We’re confident<br />
and happy to be where we are as<br />
a band — everything that’s happened<br />
with us has exceeded expectations,<br />
and it’s all been a surprise, it’s all much<br />
bigger than what we were prepared<br />
for. So when we came to recording this<br />
record we had a choice: to shy away<br />
from that, or to realise that people dig<br />
what we’re doing, and make something<br />
robust, with that energy.”<br />
More than anything, there is a real a<br />
sense of completeness to Babel, a<br />
satisfying wholeness and a kind of<br />
musical and lyrical wealth — romanticism<br />
tempered by strength and vigour;<br />
a brawniness balanced by beauty. “I<br />
think there’s more subject-matter on<br />
this album, and I think we’ve grown up<br />
a little bit,” says Mumford. “I feel like it’s<br />
more exposed, more naked. Ted always<br />
talked about wanting to make an album<br />
like a story,” he adds. “Not necessarily<br />
one that has a plot, but one that you<br />
can listen from top to bottom and it<br />
makes sense. I think that’s what we’ve<br />
tried to do, and what we’ve done.”<br />
“And now we’ve finished it we can<br />
get touring again, which is what<br />
we set out to do when we started<br />
the band. Back to business.”<br />
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