Mumford & Sons share new ‘Rushmere’ album opener ‘Malibu’: “This song just felt like us”

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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.