Mumford & Sons have revealed that their new album 'Wilder Mind' will be released this coming May.
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The group have warned their fans not to expect their trademark folk sound on the new record, because they've decided to ditch the instruments used on first two records 'Sigh No More' and 'Babel', whilst working on their new release.
Frontman Marcus Mumford said: "We felt that doing the same thing, or the same instrumentation again, just wasn't for us.
"We've got a broader taste in music than just that."
Bassist Ted added: "None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2'. It was always going to be different."
Released on May 5, the 12-track new record is to move towards an electronic sound - something that surprised members of the band.
Walking into a studio filled with synthesizers, Ted Dwane said: "It was bizarre. I didn't expect we were going to do the same thing again - but this was crazy!"
As well as the genre change, the Grammy-winning group explained that New York inspired the record.
Ted explained: "Half of the band has gone one way towards this sort of happy marriage, and the other half has gone the opposite direction to a lonely single existence.
"So there was sort of two people writing from one spectrum and two people writing from the opposite spectrum. Certainly the sentiments expressed on the album are all drawn from personal experience, unfortunately."
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