Wandering Eyes: Mumford & Sons's new music video is an Irish Car Bomb you drink with your eyes

One of the more self-aware music videos to premiere amid a storm of overwrought romanticism and smugness cast over present-day folk music, Mumford & Sons's new music video for "Hopeless Wanderer" is a real barn burner. With Jason Sudeikis anchoring a cast of Jason Bateman, Ed Helms and Will Forte — all filling in for Marcus and company — this is well worth your lunch break and change.

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Sudeikis is living the dream: waking up to Olivia Wilde, pulling in seven-figure movie roles post a celebrated stint on a resurgent Saturday Night Live, anticipating another banner year for the greatest college basketball program in the nation* (he is a well-known lifelong fan of the Kansas Jayhawks), and now palling around with the center-of-the-folk-revival Mumford & Sons. Man has it made.

*The author of this post is a proud Kansan. Rock Chalk.