A few weeks ago, my roommate and I were in our room chatting, and we got onto music. She asked if I'd like to hear her new favorite band. Ever the junkie for good music recommendations, of course I accepted.She then proceeded to play the song "Awake My Soul," off the new album by Mumford and Sons (see the video below). Their CD Sigh No More is, to quote a review in Paste Magazine, "an album chock full of gorgeous remorse." The lyrics attend to universal truths of relationships and reconciliation, but they constantly brush up against spiritual realities in such a way as to turn apologies into something resembling confessions. This is not CCM (Christian Contemporary Music), but there is more than one reason that Mumford & Sons has become popular in the halls of the seminary I attend.
In these bodies we will live
In these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love
You invest your life
Awake my soul
Awake my soul
Awake my soul
For you were made to meet your maker
The music of Mumford & Sons revives old-timey folk music as well as the spirit. This is a far cry from the bubblegum pop dominating the radio waves right now, and for that I am grateful.
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