Delta

Since the release of Wilder Mind in May 2015, and the collaborative Johannesburg mini-album in the Summer of 2016, Mumford & Sons have found a rich, prolific vein of form in the writing for "Delta". Where Wilder Mind harnessed a widescreen electric sound that seemed custom built to be belted back to them from the festival main stages, "Delta" loses none of that sense of scale, but couples it with an intimacy and jubilance that has so successfully combined to make Mumford & Sons one of the biggest bands of recent years. Guiding Light is the perfect example of that - a dizzying folk-rock song that builds, builds, explodes and then explodes again. An emphatic return.