Aaron Dessner, Gracie Abrams and Hozier feature on Mumford & Sons' sixth album, Prizefighter

A mere seven months on from the arrival of RUSHMERE – the band’s comeback album released 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, the new release 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.

Mumford & Sons welcomed collaborators into the studio, calling on the likes of Hozier, Gracie Abrams, Chris Stapleton, Gigi Perez, and Dessner himself.

“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,” says Marcus Mumford. “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 band follow the release of their Hozier collaboration by returning to the UK and Europe for a 22-date run that concludes with two hometown shows at London’s O2 Arena.

Tracklist:

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