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Mumford and Sons announce new album, ‘Prizefighter’, featuring Gigi Perez, Gracie Abrams and more

Wed 29 October 2025 17:01, UK

Mumford and Sons have revealed that their sixth studio album will be titled Prizefighter. It will be released on February 13th, 2026.

The first single for the new record came last week with ‘Rubber Band Man’, featuring Irish singer-songwriter Hozier, which details the breakdown of a relationship. It exemplifies the new album starting as it means to go on, with collaboration at its core.

Prizefighter will also include collaborations from Gracie Abrams, Chris Stapleton, Aaron Dessner, and Gigi Perez.

In the spirit of joint work, the record was co-written and co-produced alongside The National’s Aaron Dessner at his Long Pond Studio in upstate New York. The band previously worked with Dessner on their third album, Wilder Mind.

In just ten days, the band had written more than an album’s worth of songs. According to a press release, the project 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 will consist of 14 tracks. Speaking on the project, frontman Marcus Mumford shared, “We feel like we’re hitting our prime as a creative force. We’re putting everything we have into this now, and we’re using everything about our experience so far to embrace exactly who we are. We’re comfortable in our skins these days.”

He continued, “And Prizefighter is us going for it – serious and playful, sometimes bruised and always hopeful. We’re nowhere near done yet. I hope and believe and we’re in the beginning of something we don’t want to let up on. I’m more excited to be in this band than I’ve ever been.”

Prizefighter will be a follow-up to their 2025 album, Rushmere, which was released this March. Their newly released single with a return to the UK and Europe later this year for a 22-date run that concludes with two hometown shows at London’s O2 Arena.