"We're fucking knackered," says Marcus Mumford, sipping a coffee on a covering couch backstage at Brooklyn's Barclays Center yesterday. He sounds blatant and a little addled from Mumford & Sons' better weekend ever: After arena their aboriginal of two shows at the Barclays Center endure Wednesday, they flew to L.A., area they played for Bruce Springsteen at a Grammy accolade event, performed during the reside Grammy advertisement – and won Album of the Year for their additional LP, Babel. "When we appear [2009's] Sigh No More, our administrator said, 'We're allegedly gonna advertise amid 100,000 and 150,00 records.' And we were like, 'That's amazing!'" says Mumford. "Since then, aggregate has gotten added ridiculous, absurd and mind-fucking."
Sigh No More concluded up acceptable a double-platinum smash, creating acute burden for the band's follow-up. "As we were authoritative Babel, Sigh No More's adumbration kept accepting bigger and bigger. There was a lot in us that was like, 'That's OK, fuck it, Babel will be the black additional adolescent – like a lot of us are, actually,'" the accompanist says with a big laugh. "And that's fine. We were authoritative it absolutely assertive it and cerebration about that as abundant as accessible – and so it's absolutely candied now to see it do its affair as well. That's crazy for us."
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Coming from the U.K., the bandage didn't yield the Grammys absolutely seriously. "I in fact said to Adele she should apprehend out our name no amount who it was," says keyboardist Ben Lovett. Adds bassist Ted Dwane, "It acquainted absolutely weird. We'd been [to the Grammys] a few times. The physiological acquaintance of sitting there and getting shortlisted and calling out anyone else's name was rehearsed. But this third time, we won. They alleged us up. And it was the big one, as well. Absolutely crazy."
Marcus Mumford says he doesn't pay too abundant absorption to boilerplate music, but he begin himself afraid by the night's performances. "Bruno Mars was fucking amazing. He's a badass. When he played with Sting, that was sick. I've heard so abounding things about Frank Ocean. Now I absolutely wish to go apprehend his record."
The bandage were aswell abashed to accommodated heroes like Elton John and Jack White ("He was so nice – I was so surprised," says Mumford). Says Dwane, "I bethink seeing the Black Keys at a area alert the admeasurement of this bathrobe room. I was a die-hard fan. It's just so awe-inspiring getting in a class with them. Sitting next to them, these humans I've had posters of. I was in tears."
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No one loomed beyond for banjo amateur Winston Marshall than Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. "It meant a lot to me," he says. "I was a bit too adolescent to see Rage afore their hiatus, but I went to every individual Audioslave appearance in London. I went to three in a row once. I fucking admired that band. I admired Tom Morello. To accept him affection our music – allegedly he'd been to our gigs – for me was just fucking surreal. We allocution to these people, and whether it's fucking Jack White or Elton John, they're just admirable humans who adulation music as abundant as you do."
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