Marcus Mumford stares across the bay, at the boats and blue skies of Newport in Rhode Island. The singer took his time to choose a spot to meet — he wanted a peaceful view. We are on America’s east coast because Mumford is playing at the city’s legendary folk festival, but, also, because he has something to share.
He looks me in the eye, through sunglasses he never takes off. We are talking about Cannibal — his first song away from his band, Mumford & Sons. He sighs. “I was sexually abused as a child,” he says. “And I hadn’t told anyone.”
Mumford was just six, and Cannibal is his confession. “That wasn’t a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it,”
