Song · Mumford & Sons
“Lover of the Light” by Mumford & Sons
From the album Babel (2012)
“Lover of the Light” by Mumford & Sons appears on 17 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 2012 and 2013. It was first released in 2012 on the album Babel. Its best result is #9 on the Lightning 100 Top 100.1 Songs of 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #18 alternative song of 2013 and #260 of the '10s.
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"Lover of the Light" followed "I Will Wait" off Babel, Mumford & Sons' 2012 second album, arriving as a digital single that November. The whole band shares the writing credit (Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane), Markus Dravs produced it and Ruadhri Cushnan mixed it, and the British band's indie folk comes out big, burnished and swinging for the rafters.
The video is the braver piece of work. The band never appears in it; instead the actor Idris Elba, who co-directed it with screenwriter Dan Cadan, plays a blind man who leaves his cane behind and bolts off on his own, ending up on the lip of a cliff. It went up on YouTube the day before the single and runs close to six minutes.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 141 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
Also listed as: Lover Of The Light.
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