Mumford & Sons have announced plans to release a new album – find all the details below.
- READ MORE: Marcus Mumford on solo album ‘(self-titled)’: “I’ve never felt so fulfilled around a project”
Entitled ‘Prizefighter’, their sixth studio LP is set to drop via Island Records on February 13, 2026 and will feature guest artists including Gracie Abrams, Hozier and Chris Stapleton. You can pre-order it here.
The album was produced by The National‘s Aaron Dessner at Long Pond Studios in New York.
Last week, the band shared the first taster from the record ‘Rubber Band Man‘, featuring Hozier. That came seven months after the release of their first album in seven years, ‘RUSHMERE’.
Abrams, features on the track ‘Badlands’ while Stapleton appears on album opener ‘Here’. Elsewhere recent NME cover star Gigi Perez also makes an appearance on the song ‘Icarus’.
Frontman Marcus Mumford said of the new album: “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. 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.”
The tracklisting for ‘Prizefighter’ is:
1. ‘Here’ (with Chris Stapleton)
2. ‘Rubber Band Man’ (with Hozier)
3. ‘The Banjo Song’
4. ‘Run Together’
5. ‘Conversation With My Son’
6. ‘Alleycat’
7. ‘Prizefighter’
8. ‘Begin Again’
9. ‘Icarus’ (with Gigi Perez)
10. ‘Stay’
11. ‘Badlands’ (with Gracie Abrams)
12. ‘Shadow Of A Man’
13. ‘I’ll Tell You Everything’
14. ‘Clover’
Mumford & Sons were recently joined by Noah Kahan and Maggie Rogers for their 2025 US ‘Railroad Revival Tour’ – a reworking of their 2011 tour of the US railway, which saw all the participating artists travel together by train alongside an ‘all-star house band’ featuring the likes of Nathaniel Rateliff, Lucius, Trombone Shorty, Madison Cunningham and Leif Vollebekk.
Speaking about the recent tour, Mumford said: “We felt we had some unfinished business on the great American railroad. So, we’ve spent a lot of time cooking up this idea for another rolling festival to rip through the south and east of the US, picking up exactly where we left off in New Orleans and ending in Vermont.”
“The spirit of what we do, at its core, is always about people and collaboration. So, every show will be a collaborative performance from a bunch of our favourite people on the planet, and every show will be different. This will, without doubt, be the coolest house band we’ll ever get to play in,” he added
They will head back to Europe before returning to the UK next month. The latter trek is set to conclude with two concerts at London’s O2 in December. Find any remaining tickets here.