Babel (Colored Vinyl, Cream, Anniversary Edition)

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0th Anniversary Colored 180g Vinyl LP Reissue of 2013 Grammy Award-Winning Album of the Year with Alternate ArtworkMumford & Sons offer up a 10th anniversary colored 180g vinyl LP reissue of their celebrated second albumBabel! The anniversary edition features a variation of the photography originally featured onBabel, shot on location in West London by long-standing collaborator, the photographer Marcus Haney.

Babelwas originally released in Autumn 2012, topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic in September 2012 for the first time, as the band’s profile soared right across the globe. It was first introduced in August of that year with lead single, “I Will Wait,” as the band continued a sold-out headline tour of the US. The record has since sold millions of copies worldwide (going 4 x platinum in both the US and UK alone).Babelwon the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2013, with Mumford & Sons taking home the British Group award at the 2013 BRIT Awards. In addition,Babelwon the Juno Award for International Album of the Year and was also included inQ Magazine’slist of the 50 Greatest Albums of 2012.

Babelfollowed the word-of-mouth success of the band’s debut album,Sigh No More, which debuted in October 2009 and slowly but surely sent Mumford & Sons stratospheric.Babelfound the band stick close to the formula that had brought them such success, but the songs were bigger, bolder, and epic in scale. It was the fastest selling record of 2012 in the UK, and the second fastest record of the year in the US, behind only Taylor Swift’sRed.Babelspawned some of Mumford & Sons’ biggest hits to date including “I Will Wait,” “Lover of the Light,” and “Hopeless Wanderer.”

1. Babel
2. Whispers In The Dark
3. I Will Wait
4. Holland Road
5. Ghosts That We Knew
6. Lover Of The Light
7. Lovers Eyes
8. Reminder
9. Hopeless Wanderer
10. Broken Crown
11. Below My Feet
12. Not With Haste