Watch Mumford & Sons Reimagine 'White Blank Page' and "Forever'

From Esquire

Mumford & Sons is not a group who sit around and listen to their own albums. "Once we deliver [a record]," frontman Marcus Mumford told Esquire last year, "I never listen to it again." Aside from playing the music each night on tour, he'll only interact with the group's now four-studio-album catalog on accident. "Might hear it in a coffee shop," he says, considering any exceptions.

Occasionally, such a chance run-in with their music leads to surprising revelations. Recently, Mumford said, they heard "White Blank Page," off their behemoth Sigh No More LP and learned they tear through the cut significantly faster-about 15 BPM-live. "We were like, 'Fuck, that's really slow,'" he recalled, laughing. Banjoist Winston Marshall quipped that their nightly take is the "techno version" of the cut.

Now, they're revisiting that cut once more, as well as the soaring "Forever," off 2018's adventurous Delta, with new live recordings on Amazon Music. The versions of the songs are debuting today exclusively on Esquire with video of the recordings from Sound City studios in Los Angeles.

Mumford & Sons is currently on tour, something Mumford and Marshall both expressed excitement over last fall. "We spent a lot of time designing [the show]," Mumford said. "And we're excited. That's the unique thing you can do with arenas: You can make them your own." All dates are listed on the group's website. The songs are currently streaming on Amazon's Control Alt Repeat playlist, embedded below.

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