The Lumineers

      The Lumineers is a folk rock band from Denver Colorado. The band was formed in 2005. The members include Wesley Keith Schults  on lead vocals, Jeremiah Caleb Frailes with percussion/drums, piano, and backing vocals, Neyla Pekarek plays cello, bass, percussion, and backing vocals, Stelth Ulvang seems to be prodigy with piano, guitar, banjo, clarinet, glockenspiel (whatever that is), double bass, trombone, trumpet, flute, drums, and backing vocals. Ben Wahamaki plays bass guitar and guitar. Past members include Jay Van Dyke who was on drums, backing vocals and keyboard, and Maxwell Hughes who played guitar. This group is a group of musical prodigies and so it is no wonder their music is so well put together.
      The Lumineers released their debut album on April 3rd 2012 but before that they released their single "Ho Hey" in December of 2011. This single gained much popularity which was latter transferred to the band's debut album. The album hit its tightest mark at number two on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. I liked the song "Submarines" mostly for the piano. I think the piano with percussion was a nice change from the usual and it sounded really upbeat. I also like the song "Big Parade" because I liked how the guitar and the bass came together to sound like a jumpy dance. All in all I liked this album but I feel like a lot of songs sound the same with only a slight variation of each song. If you have not heard the song "Ho Hey" (which is extremely unlikely considering how over played it was a year ago) then you should look it up because it is the biggest variation in the whole album and it is a good song if you don't wear it out.
      Wesley Schults and Jeremiah Fraites helped compose the music for the song "The Hanging Tree" written by Suzanne Collins in her book "Mocking Jay." The song was preformed by Jennifer Lawrence and James Newton Howard in the movie "Mocking Jay; Part One."

      note: if you like The Lumineers, then you should check of the band Of Monsters and Men. (next week)

 

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Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lumineers