Mumford & Sons have shared their latest single ‘Malibu’ from the forthcoming album ‘Rushmere’, explaining that the song “just felt like us”.
The soft and delicate track opens with a folksy guitar riff as frontman Marcus Mumford‘s warm vocals take over the chorus of: “You are all I want / You’re all I need / And I’ll find peace beneath the shadow of your wings“.
Speaking about the track in a press release, the frontman said: “‘Malibu’ was the first song we wrote when we got back together in Los Angeles in January 2023. The song just felt like us, and the process of recording it with Dave [Cobb] captured it on record in a way that made us feel it had to open RUSHMERE. We love it.”
‘Malibu’ marks the second track to be released from the group’s forthcoming fifth studio album ‘Rushmere’. It follows the album’s lead single of the same name.
‘Rushmere’ will mark their first LP in seven years and is set for release on March 28 via Island/Glassnote, following on from 2018’s ‘Delta’ (pre-order/pre-save here).
‘RUSHMERE’ also marks Mumford & Sons’ first album as a trio, comprising Mumford, Ted Dwane and Ben Lovett. Banjoist Winston Marshall departed the group in 2021, after facing backlash for praising a book by right-wing US journalist Andy Ngo.
According to a press release, Rushmere is the spot where it all began for the band. The pond, located on Wimbledon Common in south-west London, is where Mumford, Lovett, and Dwane first hung out and imagined the initial idea of putting a band together. Rushmere was as familiar to them as the instruments they played, and is at the heart of their origin story.
Produced by nine-time Grammy award winner Dave Cobb, ‘RUSHMERE’ follows an intense period of creativity for the trio and was recorded at RCA Studio A in Nashville, in Savannah, GA, and back in the U.K. at Marcus’ studio in Devon.
Speaking about the prospect of releasing new material in an interview in early 2024, Lovett said: “It just feels so great to be sharing new music again after all these years.”
Mumford added: “I think we always felt like we knew we were going to release some more music, but we wanted to wait for the right music. We’ve never been in haste, I don’t think. But when this music came around, we had a sense of urgency.”
Dwane explained that they had “a lot of songs kicking around” at the time, and said the group were “really excited”.
In other news, Mumford and Sons’ are set to embark on an intimate nine-date club tour of UK, Europe, Australia and North America next month. Check out a full list of dates below and visit here to purchase US tickets and here to purchase UK tickets.
Mumford & Sons 2025 intimate club tour dates are:
MARCH
5 – Amsterdam, NL, Melkweg
7 – Paris, FR, Elysee Montmatre
9 – Berlin, DE—Metropol
11 – London, U.K., O2 Forum Kentish Town
17 – Sydney, AU, Sydney Opera House
20 – Los Angeles, CA, Hollywood Palladium
22 – Chicago, IL, The Chicago Theatre
23 – Toronto, ON, Allied Music Centre – Massey Hall
26 – New York, NY, Brooklyn Paramount
