Babel (Album)
Occupation
- Ted Dwane: double bass
- Ben Lovett: keyboard, accordion
- Winston Marshall: banjo, dobro
- Marcus Mumford: vocals, guitar, percussion
Babylon is the second studio album by the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons. It was published in the German-speaking area on September 21, 2012 in Universal.
Formation
The recording of the album took place in various studios in the UK, the U.S. and France between 2011 and 2012. As a producer, while Markus Dravs was elected, who worked with the band already on the previous album. The album itself was released in German-speaking countries on 21 September 2012.
Title list
Chart positions
In the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Flanders, the Netherlands, Norway, and New Zealand, the album was able to place topped the respective charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Australia, it reached the second place. With fourth place in Denmark and Sweden, # 5 in Italy and No. 8 in Portugal other top ten finishes were achieved. Other chart entries for the album there was in Wallonia with 11th place, Spain with number 12 in Finland with number 19, number 31 in Poland and number 67 in France.
The first single, I Will Wait, reached in New Zealand (4th place ), Ireland ( 7th place) and Canada (9th ) Top - ten finishes. More rankings in singles charts existed in the UK with 12th place in Flanders with 14th place in Australia and the U.S. with space 23, in Switzerland number 39 in Sweden and 50 in Germany with space with room 53
Awards
In Austria and Belgium Babel received each a gold record in the U.S. and Germany, there was a platinum record. Two time there was this award in Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand.
The album was nominated in four categories at the Grammy Awards in 2013 and was able to receive an award for Album of the Year. It is also nominated for Album of the Year at the BRIT Awards. The Rolling Stone magazine listed Babel number 11 of the best albums of 2012.
Reception
By music critics, the album was well received until blended. Metascore calculated an average rating of 63 % based on 33 reviews and assigns the predicate "generally favorable" (Eng. " generally positive ").
The highest rating receives the Album of Laut.de. Critic Deborah Katona is of the opinion that there is nothing to criticize and none of the songs look like a stopgap.
Also Ian Winwood from the BBC praised the album, where Mumford & Sons have found a way to stand out from the crowd and develop their own style of music.
The Rolling Stone awards 3.5 of 5 possible points. Critic Will Hermes praises on one side of the arrangement of the album and the individual songs, but also criticized that the folk part on this album at some points was too low.
James Christopher Monge of Allmusic Although sees some weaknesses on textual level, praises on the other side but the musical output of the band. When rating he awards three out of five stars.