Mumford and Sons have been hard at work on their next studio album. So far, they are about 6 songs in, on what could be a 10 song release.

Recently, NME , caught up with frontman Marcus Mumford to discuss the progress on their next endeavor:

“We’ve been playing a couple of new songs a night on this tour. We’ve gone back to the mentality we had when we first started out, when every song was new to the audience and we’d get away with experimenting on them almost every night – working out what wasn’t quite right, which lyrics didn’t work, how 60 people in a pub reacted to certain things. “That was always part of our writing process, but on ‘Wilder Mind’ we kind of changed that mentality – we wrote it less on the road and more in the studio. People can share songs online so much more easily these days, so that experimentation is a little riskier than before, but we try not to be too precious about it.” Guitarist Winston Marshall commented:

“I feel like we’ve got a really good chunk of the record done, although there’s still a lot more to do. If you’re going to write an album of 10 songs, our attitude is that you need to write 30 and choose 10 f**king good ones.”

Mumford and Sons Tour

LATITUDE FESTIVAL SUFFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM

LONGITUDE FESTIVAL DUBLIN, IRELAND

FREQUENCY FESTIVAL SANKT PÖLTEN, AUSTRIA 7

LOWLANDS FESTIVAL WALIBI HOLLAND, NETHERLANDS

PUKKELPOP FESTIVAL HASSELT, BELGIUM

ZÜRICH OPENAIR ZURICH, SWITZERLAND

LOLLAPALOOZA BERLIN BERLIN, GERMANY

MUSIC MIDTOWN ATLANTA, UNITED STATES

AMERICAN AIRLINES ARENA MIAMI, UNITED STATES

AMALIE ARENA TAMPA, UNITED STATES