{"id":2123109,"date":"2025-10-29T18:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123109"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:10:25","slug":"mumford-sons-announce-new-album-prizefighter-featuring-gracie-abrams-hozier-and-chris-stapleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mumford-sons-announce-new-album-prizefighter-featuring-gracie-abrams-hozier-and-chris-stapleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumford &#038; Sons announce new album &#8216;Prizefighter&#8217; featuring Gracie Abrams, Hozier and Chris Stapleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/mumford-and-sons\">Mumford &amp; Sons<\/a> have announced plans to release a new album \u2013 find all the details below.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled \u2018Prizefighter\u2019, their sixth studio LP is set to drop via Island Records on February 13, 2026 and will feature guest artists including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/gracie-abrams\">Gracie Abrams<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/hozier\">Hozier<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/chris-stapleton\">Chris Stapleton<\/a>. You can pre-order it <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mumfordandsons.lnk.to\/Prizefighter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The album was produced by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-national\">The National<\/a>\u2018s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/aaron-dessner\">Aaron Dessner<\/a> at Long Pond Studios in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the band shared the first taster from the record \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/mumford-sons-and-hozier-team-up-for-stirring-new-single-rubber-band-man-3901899\">Rubber Band Man<\/a>\u2018, featuring Hozier. That came seven months after the release of their first album in seven years, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/mumford-sons-announce-first-album-in-seven-years-rushmere-3829463\">\u2018RUSHMERE\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams, features on the track \u2018Badlands\u2019 while Stapleton appears on album opener \u2018Here\u2019. Elsewhere recent <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/the-cover\"><em>NME<\/em> cover<\/a> star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/gigi-perez\">Gigi Perez<\/a> also makes an appearance on the song \u2018Icarus\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mumford &amp; Sons, Hozier - Rubber Band Man\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vLTwLkqPSAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Frontman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/marcus-mumford\">Marcus Mumford<\/a> said of the new album: \u201cWe feel like we\u2019re hitting our prime as a creative force. We\u2019re putting everything we have into this now, and we\u2019re using everything about our experience so far to embrace exactly who we are. We\u2019re comfortable in our skins these days. And \u2018Prizefighter\u2019 is us going for it \u2013 serious and playful, sometimes bruised and always hopeful. We\u2019re nowhere near done yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope and believe and we\u2019re in the beginning of something we don\u2019t want to let up on. I\u2019m more excited to be in this band than I\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The tracklisting for \u2018Prizefighter\u2019 is:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>1. \u2018Here\u2019 (with Chris Stapleton)<\/strong><br \/><strong>2. \u2018Rubber Band Man\u2019 (with Hozier)<\/strong><br \/><strong>3. \u2018The Banjo Song\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>4. \u2018Run Together\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>5. \u2018Conversation With My Son\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>6. \u2018Alleycat\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>7. \u2018Prizefighter\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>8. \u2018Begin Again\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>9. \u2018Icarus\u2019 (with Gigi Perez)<\/strong><br \/><strong>10. \u2018Stay\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>11. \u2018Badlands\u2019 (with Gracie Abrams)<\/strong><br \/><strong>12. \u2018Shadow Of A Man\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>13. \u2018I\u2019ll Tell You Everything\u2019<\/strong><br \/><strong>14. \u2018Clover\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mumford &amp; Sons were recently joined by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/noah-kahan\">Noah Kahan<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/maggie-rogers\">Maggie Rogers<\/a> for their 2025 US \u2018Railroad Revival Tour\u2019 \u2013 a reworking of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/mumford-and-sons-174-1267585\">their 2011 tour of the US railway<\/a>, which saw all the participating artists travel together by train\u00a0alongside an \u2018all-star house band\u2019 featuring the likes of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nathaniel-rateliff\">Nathaniel Rateliff<\/a>, Lucius, Trombone Shorty, Madison Cunningham and Leif Vollebekk.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the recent tour, Mumford said: \u201cWe felt we had some unfinished business on the great American railroad. So, we\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018Prizefighter\u2019 artwork<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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\u2019ll ever get to play in,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NME meets Marcus and Winston from Mumford &amp; Sons to talk eclectic new album \u2018Delta\u2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h51VzMkXJB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>They will <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/mumford-sons-add-new-dates-to-2025-uk-arena-tour-after-all-shows-sell-out-within-two-hours-3848819\">head back to Europe before returning to the UK<\/a> next month. The latter trek is set to conclude with two concerts at London\u2019s O2 in December. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.co.uk\/mumford-sons-tickets\/artist\/1388154?irgwc=1&amp;utm_source=2862475-NME%20Networks%20Media%20Limited&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=2862475&amp;awtrc=&amp;clickId=xOnTBHWu7xyKRF4SKGSfxVZQUkpxst3qzXxF0U0&amp;camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_2862475&amp;ircid=7559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find any remaining tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumford &amp; Sons have announced plans to release a new album \u2013 find all the details below. 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