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“I know who I am.”

It’s a phrase that Mickey Rourke says and repeats and repeats some more near the conclusion of the wildly underrated, wonderfully bent N’Awlins nouveau noir classic Angel Heart.

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It is a perfect line delivered perfectly and powerfully: Half sobbing and pleading, half shouting and with the need to convince himself and the world, entirely one with the life and, literally, soul all invested in. There was a purity in it, in the uncertainty.

I know who I am?

Don’t know why, but that line is one that springs to mind in the context of English act Mumford and Sons, who hit the city Wednesday night for a Saddledome show in support of their latest album, Wilder Mind.

As has been foretold, established, and explained further, it is an album meant to establish who the British act are — away from the nu folk frontlines and more in the alt rock camp.

And it is a middling record at best. It certainly didn’t live up to their earlier live show, a full-on, entertaining-as-hell rock event, which they brought to town in spring of 2013. That concert was a flat-out enjoyable, upbeat disputation of those who had them pegged as what we thought they were and was, instead, an expression of the band’s dynamism.