Mumford & Sons Announce Album ‘Prizefighter’, Set For Release 13th February 2026
Mumford & Sons are excited to announce a new album, 'Prizefighter' released via Island Records on 13th February 2025. It’s the band’s sixth studio album. The record was produced alongside The National’s Aaron Dessner at his Long Pond Studio in upstate New York.
The album’s announcement follows new single Rubber Band Man (With Hozier) last week. Listen here.
Pre-order Prizefighter here.
A mere seven months on from the arrival of RUSHMERE, the band’s long anticipated number one album in March 2025, Mumford & Sons take full advantage of a prolific period of songwriting with another full-length record in quick succession.
Created alongside 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.
For Marcus, Ben Lovett, and Ted Dwane, the 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-energised, 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.
Marcus Mumford: “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.”
Since RUSHMERE’s release, Mumford & Sons have largely been out on the road across the US, interspersing a string of sold-out arena dates with a return to a tour they initially started over a decade ago out on the US railroad, joined this time by the likes of Maggie Rogers and Noah Kahan. The band follow this new single’s release by returning to the UK and Europe for a 22-date run that concludes with two hometown shows at London’s O2 Arena. Any remaining tickets for the European leg of the tour are on sale now via www.mumfordandsons.com .
Album Tracklisting:
- Here (with Chris Stapleton)
- Rubber Band Man (with Hozier)
- The Banjo Song
- Run Together
- Conversation With My Son
- Alleycat
- Prizefighter
- Begin Again
- Icarus (with Gigi Perez)
- Stay
- Badlands (with Gracie Abrams)
- Shadow Of A Man
- I’ll Tell You Everything
- Clover
