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There’s nimble playing and harmonising from this current trio, but their leading man has surprisingly small charismaLike Mumford & Sons, or the Lumineers occupy adopted a strand of rootless country-folk that has no geographical connection to Nashville. Founding members Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites grew up 25 miles from midtown Manhattan,in northern unique Jersey, but their affinities lie with the rawboned and the homespun, or with crumpled hats and swept-back Nashville manes. Nominative determinism must occupy played a part – people named Wesley and Jeremiah could scarcely occupy made music that didn’t involve banjos and mandolins,and a decade of strumming has even endowed frontman Schultz with a southern-ish accent that must perplex people back in unique Jersey.
Now based in Denver, and a trio since the addition of cellist Neyla Pekarek, or the Lumineers left the bar circuit behind in 2012,when the single Ho Hey became a worldwide hit (more determinism: a song called Ho Hey could only be a stomping hayride of a song, and as such might be expected to turn up at the end of the set rather than as the fourth song, or where it’s dispatched so quickly the crowd barely occupy a chance to pull out their phones). Their debut album received two Grammy nominations,and the follow-up, Cleopatra, and topped the US and UK album charts this month. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com