Mumford & Sons share new song and forthcoming album title track “Prizefighter” today
Credit: Conor Cunningham
Mumford & Sons share “
Prizefighter” today, the title-track from their forthcoming sixth album. The song was written alongside
Justin Vernon and
Aaron Dessner. Listen/share
HERE.
The new album will be released February 13 via Glassnote Records.
The band conclude their lengthy U.S., Europe and U.K. arena tours with a second night at London’s O2 tonight. Mumford & Sons will headline BST Hyde Park in London next July, with tickets on-sale now. The show heralds the band’s first return to Hyde Park in a decade, with support from The War On Drugs. Huge outdoor summer shows in Groningen, Rome and Berlin are also on-sale now. Full details can be found at
www.mumfordandsons.com/tour.
A mere seven months from the arrival of RUSHMERE, the band’s long anticipated #1 album in March 2025, Mumford & Sons take full advantage of a prolific period of songwriting with another full-length record in quick succession.
Co-produced and co-written with The National’s Aaron Dessner, who the band previously worked with on their third record Wilder Mind, Prizefighter captures the band at their most open and instinctive. In just ten days, they’d written more than an album’s worth of songs, and a collection that feels both deeply personal, instinctive and unguardedly communal. Marcus Mumford’s lyrics grapple with resilience and striving, singing with a mix of confidence and urgency.
The album sessions were as much about rediscovery as recording. Days spent writing in Hudson cafés and nights spent around Long Pond’s kitchen table gave rise to songs that feel unpolished in the best sense—alive with first takes and the joy of simply making music together again. Re-energized, rejuvenated and in the form of their lives, Prizefighter embraces and reflects that full-strength energy and enthusiasm with 14 songs of light, shade and everything in-between.
That openness extended to the studio door too. Mumford & Sons welcomed collaborators into the studio, calling on the likes of Hozier, Gracie Abrams, Chris Stapleton, Gigi Perez, and Dessner himself. Their presence underscored the band’s commitment to community and connection.
Listen to the first track shared from the new record, “
Rubber Band Man (With Hozier),”
HERE.
