Mumford & Sons are back. The British folk group teamed up with Pharrell Williams for a joyful and uplifting collaboration, “Good People”, their first new music in almost five years.
The track saw its debut at Williams’ Louis Vuitton Fall-Winter 2024 Show in Paris on Tuesday, January 16. The trio and Williams got together on stage to perform the track live for 1,300 guests while being joined by The Native Vocalists choir.
Speaking about the collaboration in a chat with GQ magazine, Marcus Mumford said there was “just a lot of mutual respect and admiration” between the band and Williams after they connected through performing at the same festivals throughout the years. After meeting each other again at the Something In the Water festival in early 2023, they decided they should do a song together.
Sharing similar church upbringings and fascination with gospel music, they naturally gravitated to writing a song that contained some of these elements.
“We’d all had experience with that, and it felt like we were ready to write a song that felt quite connected to how we were feeling and reaching into some soulful level,” said Mumford.
Following its live debut, the studio version of “Good People” was also shared on streaming services.
