Disappointment and surprising greatness

I bought two albums from Amazon the other day, The Script's Science & Faith and Mumford & Sons' Sigh No More. I had been wanting to hear the new album from The Script for a while now because I liked their first album. Mumford & Sons was kind of a surprise purchase. I was able to get the album, digitally, for free because of a promotion code, so why not. After listening to both albums, I was surprised by my feelings on each one.

Science & Faith, on initial listening, was disappointing. There wasn't one standout song on the entire album, save for maybe "Walk Away". I don't think there are any flat out bad songs on the album but everything really starting sounding the same. It was almost like the album was one, very long, song. That is not a good thing. I'll give it another chance but it will be a while. Why? Because I'm going to be wearing Sigh No More out.

I never thought I could love music like the music that Mumford & Sons makes. The only way to really describe it is "folk rock". I'm not sure what else to call it. Musically, it shits on anything I've heard within the past year and perhaps longer. My first listen was damn near a religious experience and I'm not even religious! The albums has the big hits, like "Little Lion Man" and "Cave" but it's so much more than just the big hits. Songs like "Thistle & Weeds", "White Blank Page", "Awake My Soul", "Timsel", "I Gave You All", and the list goes on. If you think you might not be into *does air quotes* this kind of music, as I did, you might want to give Mumford & Sons a chance. They could, and probably will, surprise you.