Marcus Mumford

Marcus Mumford releases a collaborative track with Phoebe Bridgers, "Stonecatcher," off his debut solo LP.

[tour North America](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/marcus-mumford-tour-dates-2022-solo-album-1386747/) this fall in support of the album. [(Self-Titled)](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/marcus-mumford-turned-his-demons-into-his-first-solo-album-self-titled-1381714/) was produced by Blake Mills and features contributions from [Brandi Carlile](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/brandi-carlile/), Bridgers, [Clairo](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/clairo/), and Monica Martin. [Speaking to GQ](https://www.gq.com/story/gq-hype-marcus-mumford), Mumford said that “Cannibal” was written while Mumford confronted what had happened to him starting at the age of six. “Because of what I do and who I am, the natural extension of this process of handling and coming to terms with this stuff was to write a song about it.” He laughs. [Marcus Mumford](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/marcus-mumford/)’s debut solo LP, [(Self-Titled)](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/marcus-mumford-self-titled-1234587637/), dropped today and one of the standout tracks features [Phoebe Bridgers](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/phoebe-bridgers/) on guest vocals. “I just think that women were a little more capable of shouldering the message,” Mumford noted.

The Mumford & Sons frontman, 35, has previously shared that he was sexually abused - opening up about the traumatic ordeal through his debut solo album, Self- ...

But I hadn’t told anyone about it for 30 years' (pictured performing in 2018) The singer has previously shared that talking about the abuse had helped relieve years of shame, and echoed this as he continued: 'I was less engulfed in shame. 'I didn't want to trigger anyone': Marcus Mumford, 35, has revealed that he hired a truama specialist to check through his new music... You took the first slice of me and you ate it raw That wasn't a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it Opening up for the first time on the abuse, he continued: 'Like lots of people – and I’m learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people – I was sexually abused as a child.

Marcus Mumford takes on the suffering of his much-reported childhood trauma on his debut solo album, (self-titled).

With murmurs of hip-hop drums, the song is also about as far away from the mumsy folk pop of Mumford and Sons as it’s possible to get. Mumford’s time in lockdown saw him bring the darkness of his past to the light, with It’s the type of song you never thought him capable of, given he and his band’s rise to fame as bland, definitionless boppers who needed to put down the banjo. It’s putting it bluntly to say this is an album about abuse but then Mumford approaches his past and his pain with the same plain speaking, confrontational lyricism. With his debut solo album (self-titled), Marcus Mumford (without the Sons), looks to add his name to the vast lists of artists who have called on their pain to create. There’s an intimacy to pain that cannot be easily removed, there are fewer more powerful emotions and it’s a feeling that has been the spine of artistic expression going back to the ancient world.

Marcus Mumford's first solo album, (self-titled), is out now via Capitol Records. Produced by Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes, Perfume Genius, Laura Marling) ...

Danielle Ponder will support from September 19-October 14 and The A’s will open from October 17-November 10 (except October 30). The album’s first single, “Grace,” which has amassed over 1.7 million combined global streams, is a Top 10 hit at AAA radio in the U.S. Mumford is a founding member of Mumford & Sons. [Buy or stream (self-titled).](https://mm.lnk.to/selftitled!PR) On “Better Angels,” a song he co-wrote with Mills, Tobias Jesso Jr., and Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold, Mumford offers up a celebration of all those who supported him in owning his story. [Clairo](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/clairo-reschedules-2022-uk-europe-tour-covid-19-spike/), Monica Martin, and Julia Michaels.

Marcus Mumford looks like he's on a tropical vacation—even though he's just at home in Los Angeles. This is partly because Mumford is sitting against a.

It was a natural part of the process to write about it, and a healthy part of the process to then release it and still feels like a healthy part of the process to talk about it. And she was like, “Now write the story you want to sing about.” I wrote it down. Historically, I haven’t had the confidence to access that kind of freedom within the band setup, and now I think I will. I had to emotionally lean in and say, “Okay, I have written that lyric. On “Stonecatcher,” I had to think harder about things I’d already been attracted to philosophically: the idea of not labeling victims and perpetrators in a binary way, because, historically, most perpetrators are victims. I don’t think that’s cowardice in the same way that I don’t think it’s bravery to talk about it. No, most of it I had processed before I wrote—but there was a sense of catharsis in writing. I don’t think it’s cowardly to not talk about trauma, but I do think it might not be healthy. That gave me the foundations and the safety to then start this process of writing the record. It was helpful to be able to play music and record it and use it. I was able to use the songs to help me guide the way. Noel Gallagher talks about having a disposition towards catching them and having your hands out because if you don’t have your hands out, then Bono or Chris Martin are going to catch them,” says Mumford, on the record.