New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Delta, the highly anticipated new album from multi-Platinum, Grammy Award-winning band Mumford & Sons, is out today on Gentlemen of the Road/Glassnote Records/Universal Music. Upon release, the album was certified gold in Canada. Stream/ purchase here. Produced by Paul Epworth, the record was written collectively by the band and recorded at London's The Church Studios
In celebration of release, the band will embark on an extensive 63-date worldwide arena tour beginning tonight at Dublin's 3
Arena and will span throughout next spring including fall North American stops at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center (sold out), Boston's TD Garden (sold out), New York's Madison
Square Garden (two nights, first sold out), DC's Capital One
Arena (sold out) and Toronto's Scotiabank
Arena (two nights, first sold out). Special guest
Maggie Rogers will join as support. The band's largest tour to date, the Delta Tour 2018/2019 includes over 800,000 tickets, which are now on sale via https://www.mumfordandsons.com/live. See below for complete tour details.
Already receiving widespread attention, the first single, "Guiding Light," recently enjoyed one of the biggest add weeks ever at both Alternative and AAA radio—closing out every station at both panels. The single currently sits at #1 on AAA (four straight weeks) and his headed into the top 5 at Alternative. Watch the single's official music video—which was directed by Joe Connor (Sam Smith, Coldplay) and features the band up close and personal, interacting with their fans—HERE. Moreover, a second song from the album, "If I Say," which features string arrangement by renowned British film score composer Sally Herbert, recently premiered as Zane Lowe's World Record on Beats1.
Earlier this fall, the band debuted "
Guiding Light" on "The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" with special guests The Roots.
Marking ten years since
Mumford & Sons made their meteoric debut, the new music follows 2015's Wilder Mind, which debuted at No. 1 in the U.S., U.K., Australia Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and Norway and, most recently, 2016's collaborative Johannesburg mini album. Previous LPs include 2012's Babel, which was awarded the 2013 Grammy for Album of the Year, and their 2009 debut, Sigh No More.
Mumford & Sons are Ben Lovett, Marcus Mumford, Ted Dwane and Winston Marshall.
MUMFORD & SONS - DELTA TOUR 2018/2019
November 16—Dublin, Ireland—3 Arena* (SOLD OUT)
November 18—Belfast, Ireland—SSE Arena* (SOLD OUT)
November 20—Glasgow, Scotland—SSE Hydro*
November 21—Manchester, U.K.—Manchester Arena*
November 23—Birmingham, U.K.—Genting Arena* (SOLD OUT)
November 24—Sheffield, U.K.—Fly DSA Arena*
November 25—Newcastle, U.K.—Metro
Radio Arena* (SOLD OUT)
November 27—Nottingham, U.K.—Motorpoint Arena*
November 28—Cardiff, U.K.—Motorpoint Arena* (SOLD OUT)
November 29—London, U.K.—O2 Arena* (SOLD OUT)
December 1—Leeds, U.K.—First Direct Arena* (SOLD OUT)
December 2—Liverpool, U.K.—Echo Arena*
December 7—Philadelphia, PA—Wells Fargo Center* (SOLD OUT)
December 9—Boston, MA—TD Garden* (SOLD OUT)
December 10—New York, NY—Madison
Square Garden* (SOLD OUT)
December 11—New York, NY—Madison
Square Garden*
December 14—Washington DC—Capital One Arena* (SOLD OUT)
December 17—Toronto, ON—Scotiabank Arena* (SOLD OUT)
December 18—Toronto, ON—Scotiabank Arena*
January 12—Auckland, New Zealand—The Outer Fields at Western Springs†
January 15—Brisbane, Australia—Entertainment Centre‡
January 18—Sydney, Australia—Qudos Bank Arena‡
January 22—Melbourne, Australia—Sidney Myer
Music Bowl‡ (SOLD OUT)
January 23—Melbourne, Australia—Sidney Myer
Music Bowl‡
January 24—Adelaide, Australia—Entertainment Centre‡
January 27—Perth, Australia—RAC Arena‡
February 27—Providence, RI—Dunkin Donuts Center
February 28—Hartford, CT—XL Center
March 2—Albany, NY—Times Union Center
March 4—Montreal, QC—Bell Centre
March 5—Ottawa, ON—Canadian Tire Center
March 8—Buffalo, NY—KeyBank Center
March 9—Cleveland, OH—Quicken Loans Arena
March 11—Columbus, OH—Nationwide Arena
March 12—Lexington, KY—Rupp Arena
March 14—Pittsburgh, PA—PPG Paints Arena
March 16—Charlottesville, VA—John Paul Jones Arena
March 17—Raleigh, NC—PNC Arena
March 18—Charleston, SC—North Charleston Coliseum
March 20—Atlanta, GA—State Farm Arena
March 22—Nashville, TN—Bridgestone Arena
March 23—Birmingham, AL—Legacy
Arena at The BJCC
March 25—Indianapolis, IN—Bankers Life Field House
March 27—Detroit, MI—Little
Caesars Arena
March 29—Chicago, IL—United Center (SOLD OUT)
March 30—Madison, WI—Kohl Center (SOLD OUT)
March 31—Milwaukee, WI—Fiserv Forum
April 25—Lisbon, Portugal—Altice Arena
April 27—Barcelona, Spain—Palau Sant Jordi
April 29—Milan, Italy—Medialanum Forum
May 1—Munich, Germany—Olympiahalle
May 3—Vienna, Austria—Stadthalle
May 5—Basel, Switzerland—St. Jakobshalle
May 7—Paris, France—Zenith
May 8—Luxembourg, Luxembourg—Rockhal
May 9—Amsterdam, Netherlands—Ziggo Dome (SOLD OUT)
May 11—Berlin, Germany—Mercedes Benz Arena
May 13—Frankfurt, Germany—Festhalle
May 15—Cologne, Germany—Lanxess Arena
May 17—Copenhagen, Denmark—Royal Arena
May 18—Gothenburg, Sweden—Scandinavium (SOLD OUT)
May 19—Oslo, Norway—Spektrum
May 21—Stockholm, Sweden—Ericsson Globe
*with special guest Maggie Rogers
†Gentlemen of the Road with Leon Bridges, Michael Kiwanuka, Angie McMahon, Sam Fender
‡with special guest Michael Kiwanuka
Recent critical acclaim for Delta:
"…a fine distillation of what makes these guys so engaging…people will relate to the universal doubts and fears that are often stirringly evoked by the music and lyrics on Delta"—American Songwriter
"Mumford & Sons roar back with Delta…redefines what they do and who they are"—Associated Press
"…the band is smack in the middle of its most fertile creative period to date"—Billboard
"…remain capable of recording radio-ready earworms that challenge expectations…while still retaining the major qualities that made them superstars in the first place"—Consequence of Sound
"…their most drastic expansion in creative scope yet, both sonically and lyrically."—Esquire
"…finds the band branching out sonically, though it is still decidedly
Mumford & Sons in the expert and engaging songwriting"—Forbes
"…an uplifting anthem that is guaranteed to get fists pumping in the arenas that
Mumford & Sons will be headlining."—New York Post
"If it's any indication of how Delta will sound as a whole, this could shape up to be the band's most experimental album yet"—Paste
"Wildly experimental"—Rolling Stone
"When the band do let their guard down, the effects are immediate…they create something honestly affecting"—SPIN
"Dark and thrilling, this is their best album yet"—The Telegraph (5*)
"Delta is the best album this band have made so far"—The Times
"For a group that refuses to be defined by their past, Delta presents a lush and vibrant vision of the band's future"—UPROXX
"…a new sonic direction for the band in its incorporation of electronic touches and spacey atmospherics"—Vulture
