You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
My name is Tao Nguyen.
Mumford & Sons are a Grammy-winning band that formed in London in 2007.
They've put out four albums and sold millions of copies.
Their last three albums have all debuted at number one on the Billboard charts.
The most recent of those albums is Delta, which came out in November 2018.
The band is made up of Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall, and Ted Duane.
And in this episode, Marcus and Ben break down a song from Delta called Beloved.
You'll hear how the song went from Marcus' original raw voice memo to the intricate finished track.
I'm Ben Lovett, and I principally play the keys in Mumford & Sons.
My name is Marcus.
I also play in Mumford & Sons.
I sing, and primarily I'm a drummer, but I also try and fake it on the guitar.
The way that we have done things historically with the band is songs could come from any four of us,
and Beloved was one of Marcus's.
I started it in October 2017 down at my studio in Devon, which is in the countryside in England.
And I just bought a Hammond C3 organ.
And I love new instruments because most of the time,
if you bought a new instrument, you tend to write a song on it straight away.