Mumford & Sons reflect on their career journey in their new Vevo short film, 12 Years Strong, which includes performances of Guiding Light and Forever featuring Americana resonator and lap steel guitarist Jerry Douglas.
[2012s sophomore album] Babel just blew up faster than we ever thought it might, frontman Marcus Mumford says in the clip. And we kinda closed the doors a bit more, and I think we lost some of the beauty of connecting with smaller audiences.
The short film documents the band as they perform a series of small shows at record stores, including footage from Grimeys Record Store in Nashville, Tennessee, Indy CD & Vinyl in Indianapolis, Indiana and at Criminal Records in Atlanta, Georgia. Scenes from their arena tour supporting their fourth album, 2018s Delta, are interspersed between the intimate store performances, interviews and fan meet-and-greet footage.
This tour, its a celebration of collaboration, mostly. Whether thats the four of us, or a collaboration with us and the audience, or a collaboration between the audience members themselves, Marcus Mumford adds. Thats the thing that we keep coming back to in the sort of narrative of our band, cause its vast, its massive.
Mumford & Sons have extended the North American leg of their Delta tour with a string of additional dates in August.