A Record you simply must hear!

I'm going to take the time to properly review the best album I've heard in years...Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More.

One of those rare albums where every song is amazing. If you're reading this and still snickering and repeating the name Mumford in your head...quickly open up iTunes and get this album. The rest of you are already singing one of their songs in your head. I can't say enough good stuff about his band. Check them out.

The album starts in haunting fashion. "Serve God, love me, and mend. This is not the end. Live unbruised, we are friends. I'm sorry." That could easily be the mantra to my recent history. Maybe I love this record so much because the opening lines speak so much to my heart. Of course he backs that up with a Shakespeare quote put to acoustic guitar music...yeah, I'm sold.

Throughout the album the words seem to be spilling from a good friend a few hours into a long road trip. It is the time when things get real and exposed. "My weakness I feel I must finally show." The jagged voice of Marcus Mumford really shines on the more emotionally driven tracks.

If you take the time to really listen to this collection of songs, you will find yourself thinking about the things you should be thinking about. "In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die. Where you invest your love, you invest your life" You will find rest from the commercialism and triteness that we are all daily bombarded with. You will be reminded that the ideals we are sold by popular culture are not reality and are not worth the struggle. "Liars and thieves, you know not what is in store!"

The album ends with a sense of brokenness: "And after the storm, I run and run as the rains come. And I look up, I look up, on my knees and out of luck, I look up." and a sense of hope:
"And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears. And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears. Get over your hill and see what you find there, With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair."

Any time a collection of music can speak to, properly focus, and encourage your soul, all the while making you want to get up and dance like no ones watching, it's worth listening to. Mumford & Sons album Sigh No More is all of that and more.