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Mumford & Sons have announced the release date of their hotly anticipated second album. The follow-up to Sigh No More is due on 24 September – so long as the band don't change their mind and "discover it's ****".

News of the release comes about a month after Ben Lovett revealed he and his bandmates had finished recording the album. Speaking from the stage at this weekend's Pinkpop festival, in Landgraaf, Netherlands, Marcus Mumford said that the LP is due this autumn. In a later interview with 3FM, they gave the exact date: 24 September.

After the success of Sigh No More, there are high hopes for the Mumfords' next album. The group's 2009 record was Brit-winning, Mercury-nominated and accomplished a rare feat for a British debut: it was a huge hit in America, selling more than 2.2m copies. Much like their first album, the new one was recorded with producer Markus Dravs, and despite comments about it being a "doom folk" record, the first taster, Ghosts That We Knew, suggests the Mumfords are mining more or less the same vein of earnest, strummy pop.

"I think we just want the songs to be good, and to sound right, and to feel like we've expressed everything as straightforwardly and honestly as we can," Marcus told MTV News last year. Even after many months of recording, Lovett indicated they were still perfectionists. "We're done recording it," he told NME earlier this month. "But if we listen back while we're mixing and discover it's ****, we'll just start again."

Mumford & Sons will tour this summer, including appearances at their own mini festivals: in Huddersfield on 2 June, and Galway on 9 June. "We know there are ****loads of festivals in Britain and no one needs a new one," the band said. "But what we thought was missing was a high-quality, inner-city event where you can take over the city itself."

I cant wait please do not start it all again!!