“Beloved” by Mumford & Sons

Mumford & Sons put "Beloved" on Delta, their fourth album, in 2018, and sent it out as the record's second single in February 2019. All four members wrote it, and Marcus Mumford has said it grew out of sitting with someone as they died, something he had never done before: a song about loss that still finds wildness, beauty and a kind of deep honoring in it, though he's careful not to tell listeners how to feel.

The ballad reaches back toward the London underground folk and Americana scene the band came up in, with Paul Epworth producing and adding instruments, Mamadou Sarr contributing extra playing, Yebba lending additional vocals and Tom Elmhirst mixing. Charlotte Regan, a BAFTA nominee, shot the video in Port Talbot, Wales.

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