Babel (Mumford & Sons album)

Babel
Babel
Studio album by Mumford & Sons
Released	21 September 2012
Studio	Angelic Studio (Brackley, Northamptonshire); British Grove Studios (London); Eastcote Studios (London); Grangeworks; Last Dollar Studio (Nashville); RAK Studios (London); Studio Soyuz (Paris); The Odgers' Chapel;
Genre	Indie folk; pop;
Length	52:17
Label	Island; Glassnote; Gentlemen of the Road;
Producer	Markus Dravs
Mumford & Sons chronology
Singles from Babel
	"I Will Wait"; Released: 7 August 2012; "Lover of the Light"; Released: 5 November 2012; "Whispers in the Dark"; Released: 11 March 2013; "Babel"; Released: 9 July 2013; "Hopeless Wanderer"; Released: 4 August 2013;

Babel is the second studio album by British folk rock band Mumford & Sons, released on 21 September 2012, by Island Records. As with their debut album, Sigh No More (2009), the album was produced by Markus Dravs. The vinyl LP version of the record was pressed by United Record Pressing in Nashville, Tennessee.

Upon its release, Babel received generally positive reviews from music critics. The album debuted at number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200, becoming the fastest-selling album of 2012 in the UK, with over 159,000 copies sold in its first week, and 600,000 first week copies in the US. Babel won Album of the Year at the 55th Grammy Awards.