<P> Mumford & Sons have released three studio albums: Sigh No More (2009), Babel (2012) and Wilder Mind (2015). Sigh No More peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200 in the US, with Babel and Wilder Mind both debuting at number one in the UK and US, the former becoming the fastest - selling rock album of the decade and leading to a headline performance at Glastonbury Festival in 2013 . The band has also issued three live albums: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire (2011), The Road to Red Rocks (2012) and Live from South Africa: Dust and Thunder (2017). </P> <P> The band have won a number of music awards throughout their career, with Sigh No More earning the band the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2011 and six overall Grammy Award nominations . The live performance at the 2011 Grammy ceremony with Bob Dylan and The Avett Brothers led to a surge in popularity for the band in the US . The band received eight total Grammy nominations for Babel and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year . The band also won the Brit Award for Best British Group in 2013 . </P> <P> Mumford & Sons were formed in December 2007 by multi-instrumentalists Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane . Band members play acoustic guitar, drums, keyboard instruments, bass guitar, and traditional folk instruments such as banjo, mandolin and resonator guitar . The band name originates from Marcus Mumford being the most visible member, organizing the band and their performances . Lovett indicated that the name was meant to invoke the sense of an "antiquated family business name". </P> <P> A handful of similar bands were increasing their visibility in West London around the same time, giving rise to the label "West London folk scene". Mumford downplays that characterisation as an exaggeration--Mumford & Sons and a few other folk acts just happened to be operating in the same general area at the time . In an interview with the Herald Sun, Marcus Mumford said, "It's not folk really . Well, some of it is, and it's certainly not a scene . Someone got over-excited about a few bands who live in a hundred - mile radius and put it in a box to sell it as a package . It's a community, not a scene . It's not exclusive ." Having developed in the same musical and cultural environment, Mumford & Sons' sound has been compared to that of artists such as Noah and the Whale, Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling, whose backing band had included Marshall, Mumford, and Dwane . </P>

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