What's The Story?
Mumford & Sons are a large folk rock outfit from London. They create soundscapes that are at once as grand as their numbers and as quiet as their genre. The Cave is from their debut & only major release Sigh No More, and they share the honor with Biebs as having lost the "best new artist" category at the Grammys to Esperanza Spalding.
Who's To Blame?
Eddie Vedder's #1 fan.
Why ♥ It?
This tune does a great job of showcasing both the big and the small found within Mumford & Sons.
Take first the first couple of verses. The song starts with an honest, blue-collar voice and a guitar. That's it. This quickly begins to accumulate other sounds, with piano, banjo, percussion and backup vocals all being a part of the fun by chorus 1.
Speaking of the chorus, it's an excellent anthem for the self; to sing along to those words and mean it feels great. And it's not hard to want to do.
Take also the latter half of the song. By 2:45 there are multiple horns, multiple guitars, and an epic and triumphant feel develops to close out the tune. The song has blossomed into one of those rare tunes where you can pound your fist in the air to a banjo and a trumpet.
The Cave is feel-good folk rock that's written with the present in mind, but I have no doubt that it'll age wonderfully as well.
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