The Lumineers, Langhorne Slim

The Lumineers are back in the UK, ahead of the release of their first full-length album, due out on April 3rd.

In 2011, the band's eponymous, self-recorded EP led to a self-booked tour, and before long they started attracting devout fans, first across the Western US, then back in their old East Coast stamping grounds.

Young, old and in-between, they're drawn by songs like 'Ho Hey' and 'Stubborn Love', Americana-inflected barnburners in the vein of the Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons. They're drawn by songs like 'Slow it Down' and 'Dead Sea', slow, sultry ballads that suggest the raw revelations of Jeff Buckley and Ryan Adams. They're drawn by the live Lumineers experience - a coming-together in musical solidarity against isolation, adversity, and despair.