event Mumford & Sons
Also Playing: Cadillac Sky and King Charles
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Sat Oct 30
8 pm
Mumford & Sons, Cadillac Sky, and King Charles at The Riverside Theater
Yes, the dude handling lead vocals is Mumford (Marcus Mumford, to be exact), and no, the guys filling out the four-part harmonies behind him aren’t his sons—but they’re keyed into Mumford’s pastoral folk in a manner that suggests familial ties all the same. The quartet approaches the melancholia of its full-length debut, Sigh No More, so earnestly, it’s like it still stomping the floorboards of the last pub it stormed out of in a fit of heartbroken catharsis. If Mumford’s self-lacerating lyrics tell the truth, he and his bandmates have had their share of both rotten love and booze, and these straightforward, blood-simple laments are the best group therapy they’ve found. The masses are buying it, too—the single, “Little Lion Man,” tore up alt-rock radio and this whole tour is sold out.
The Riverside Theater 116 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Yes, the dude handling lead vocals is Mumford (Marcus Mumford, to be exact), and no, the guys filling out the four-part harmonies behind him aren’t his sons—but they’re keyed into Mumford’s pastoral folk in a manner that suggests familial ties all the same. The quartet approaches the melancholia of its full-length debut, Sigh No More, so earnestly, it’s like it still stomping the floorboards of the last pub it stormed out of in a fit of heartbroken catharsis. If Mumford’s self-lacerating lyrics tell the truth, he and his bandmates have had their share of both rotten love and booze, and these straightforward, blood-simple laments are the best group therapy they’ve found. The masses are buying it, too—the single, “Little Lion Man,” tore up alt-rock radio and this whole tour is sold out.
Updated 06/01/2011
