Mumford & Sons have announced they will be taking a "considerable amount of time off" from making music following the end of their Babel world tour.
Keyboardist Ben Lovett said: "There won't be any Mumford & Sons activities for the foreseeable future."
He said he did not know how much time the band would be taking off, but told Rolling Stone magazine: "We just know we're going to take a considerable amount of time off and just go back to hanging out and having no commitments or pressure or anything like that.
"It feels like the last week of school right now, before school holiday when you're in high school. The atmosphere on the road is one of ... I think everyone's excited about being free of schedules."
The band has been on tour since April following the success of their second album Babel, which debuted at number one on the UK Official Albums Chart and also hit the top spot on the US Billboard 200.