Mumford & Sons' third album marks a major change in the band's sound. Graduating from the banjo-plucking, stomp-and-clap neo-folk movement they helped create, the quartet embraces a bold and electrifying brand of stadium-filling alt-rock. There's hardly an acoustic axe on Wilder Mind, where producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine) presents the band's stuck-in-your-head, heart-on-sleeve songcraft with echoing, spacious authority. With thick electric guitars and atmospheric keyboards, hard-driving anthems like Believe or The Wolf prove that the decade's most distinctive band is every bit as powerful with the electricity turned on. - iTunes
