This is an album that knocks you over at first. But when you gather yourself, get back on your feet and listen again, you’ll want to hit the play button a second time. Mumford & Sons have no reason on to apologize on Sigh No More—this is a killer debut.
It has enough commercial gloss ... to compensate for the rambling, shambling stuff, but will also sound mighty fine when the snow is on the ground and the logs are blazing in your proverbial hearth.
Thanks to a volatile mix of the uplifting and gloomy — there’s a bitter murder tale (“Dust Bowl Dance”) and lingering visions of death (“Timshel”) — Sigh No More transfixes.
Sigh No More inspires evangelism through sheer force of will. Between Mumford's gripping wail and the Sons' whirlwind revelries, it's a revival hard to resist.
Mumford's desperation, elevated in TNT dynamics, can be thrilling.
Sigh No More is an impressive debut, but one that impresses more for its promise of the future than it does its wildly inconsistent place in the present.
There's still room for growth, but Sigh suggests that Mumford & Sons may someday develop into something great. For now, we'll settle for good.
Despite any popularity which may come their way, what Mumford & Sons have produced in Sigh No More is nothing more than an empty shell of a half-decent record.
Every hoedown on Sigh No More-- every rush of instruments in rhythmic and melodic lockstep-- conveys the same sense of hollow, self-aggrandizing drama.
Sigh No More, the debut record from Mumford & Sons, came like a tsunami back in 2011. Folk and indie music was enjoying relative popularity in the 2000s, and Mumford & Sons caught the perfect tail-end of the wave in which they could ride a commercial high through accessible and easy to digest songs. Although I certainly wouldn't fault the album at the level that Pitchfork did, there are some notable flaws on the record worth mentioning. With that being said, the album isn't all bad and ... read more
It was ok but there is nothing much to say about the best song on her is little lion man and the worst is probably dust bowl dance
1 | Sigh No More 3:27 | 71 |
2 | The Cave 3:37 | 79 |
3 | Winter Winds 3:39 | 72 |
4 | Roll Away Your Stone 4:23 | 71 |
5 | White Blank Page 4:14 | 74 |
6 | I Gave You All 4:20 | 73 |
7 | Little Lion Man 4:06 | 83 |
8 | Timshel 2:53 | 72 |
9 | Thistle & Weeds 4:49 | 73 |
10 | Awake My Soul 4:15 | 72 |
11 | Dust Bowl Dance 4:43 | 66 |
12 | After the Storm 4:08 | 70 |
#1 | / | Amazon |
#2 | / | American Songwriter |
#3 | / | Paste |
#4 | / | Billboard |
#9 | / | Spinner |
#10 | / | Rhapsody SoundBoard |
#16 | / | NME |
#22 | / | The Line of Best Fit |
#26 | / | Under the Radar |
#98 | / | Consequence of Sound |