Marcus Mumford has opened up about how his recent track ‘Cannibal’ deals with his childhood experience of sexual abuse.The Mumford & Sons frontman released the song last month as the first preview of his debut solo album ‘(Self-Titled)’, which is due for release on September 16 via Island.
It arrived with a Steven Spielberg-directed official video.In a new interview with GQ, Mumford spoke about the direct nature of the ‘Cannibal’ lyrics.
The stripped-back acoustic cut begins with the lines: “I can still taste you and I hate it / That wasn’t a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it.”“Like lots of people – and I’m learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people – I was sexually abused as a child,” the singer-songwriter told the publication.
GQ noted that Mumford was six years old at the time.He continued: “Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people’s assumption.
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