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Mumford and Sons have announced details of new album 'Wilder Mind'.

The band's third album will be released on May 4 through Gentlemen of the Road/Island Records and is preceded by a new single, 'Believe', on April 27.

'Wilder Mind' was recorded at Air Studios, London and produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, HAIM, Florence & The Machine). A number of the new songs were written at Aaron Dessner of The National's garage studios in Brooklyn, New York.

Speaking to NME, in an interview you can read in full in this week's issue (on sale and available digitally from March 4), Ben Lovett of the band confirms "there are no banjos on album three".

Marcus Mumford verifies this change in musical direction in a statement about the new LP: "Towards the end of the 'Babel' tour, we'd always play new songs during soundchecks, and none of them featured the banjo, or a kick-drum. And demoing with Aaron meant that, when we took a break, we knew it wasn’t going to involve acoustic instruments. We didn't say: 'No acoustic instruments.' But I think all of us had this desire to shake it up."

The 'Wilder Mind' tracklisting is as follows:

'Tompkins Square Park'
'Believe'
'The Wolf'
'Wilder Mind'
'Just Smoke'
'Monster'
'Snake Eyes'
'Broad-Shouldered Beasts'
'Cold Arms'
'Ditmas'
'Only Love'
'Hot Gate'