Mumford & Sons have teamed up with Hozier for an upbeat new single, ‘Rubber Band Man’ – check it out below.
The song, which was produced by The National‘s Aaron Dessner at Long Pond Studios in New York, sees frontman Marcus Mumford trading vocals with Hozier throughout.
It comes seven months after the release of their first album in seven years, ‘RUSHMERE’.
Hozier’s involvement in the song stems from his friendship with the band which stretches back to 2017 when he joined Mumford & Sons on stage to cover The Beatles’ ‘A Little Help From My Friends’ at the Longitude Festival in 2017.
He also joined forces with them at the Austin City Limits Festival in Texas in 2023.
Mumford & Sons recently hosted two acoustic pop-up shows in London, headlined Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Liverpool, and performed some intimate club dates in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America.
More recently they were 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.
In 2023, Rogers and Marcus Mumford covered Taylor Swift‘s song ‘Cowboy Like Me’ together at a festival in Canada. The US singer had previously joined the band on stage in Birmingham after opening for them earlier that evening.
Kahan performed live with Mumford & Sons at Austin City Limits 2023 in Texas. Meanwhile, Mt. Joy recently recalled hanging out with the group’s Ben Lovett and a pre-fame Kahan during an interview with NME.
Speaking about the recent tour, frontman Marcus 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.”
Mumford & Sons 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.
