At some point during their meteoric rise in popularity on the back of their 2009 debut album, Mumford & Sons crossed the line from being admired by fans of Americana and folk music (you know, banjos, double basses and rousing choruses) to being derided by critics and hipsters for the crime of being too popular. Granted, their second album, Babel, sounds like a less interesting version of their first, but anyone who fails to understand the popularity of this English quartet need only to witness them performing in front of a large, enthusiastic crowd, like the one at Auckland’s Vector Arena.
