The foursome started playing together in 2007; though they were playing with other bands at the time, they bonded over their shared love of rootsy music. Babel is the followup to their hugely successful debut Sigh No More.

"[F]eatures the new stereo album mix, sourced directly from the original eight-track session tapes. To produce the mix, Giles Martin working with Sam Okell was guided by the album's original stereo mix supervised by his father, George Martin." --

"Mark Knopfler's ninth solo studio album features unhurriedly elegant new songs inspired by a wide range of subjects, including his early days in Deptford with Dire Straits, a stray football fan lost in a strange town, and the compulsion of a musician hitching home through the snow. Mark has a poet's eye for telling details that infuse his songs with his unique psychogeography." --

By The Horns is Julia's second solo offering, and her first since the multi platinum success of Angus and Julia Stone's Down The Way album.The songs have been composed in California, refined in France and sculpted in Australia and India and as the summer turned to fall in New York City, they poured through her hands to the ears and hands of Producer Thomas Bartlett who has worked with Doveman, Antony & the Johnsons and The National and is currently...