The Rolling Stones - Foreign Tongues

Surprised it's taken this long to utilize that title for something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrugmCIpAcA

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHaEFarmZx8

"Rough And Twisted"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-F_oHOvBsM

"In The Stars"

The album will reportedly primarily consist of leftover compositions from the band's last album, Hackney Diamonds.[10]

the least promising sentence in history. but i'm glad there's another album in them regardless.

lol no kidding

The album will feature appearances by Paul McCartney, Robert Smith (The Cure), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Steve Winwood.

First of the two sounds good, second we'll likely hear at CVS.

I actually love the cover art, if you are going to go bad, go obnoxiously bad.

see: Dirty Work sleeve

Robert Smith (The Cure)

struggling with this, feels like a category error to end all category errors, like the Star Wars/Elephant Man crossover nobody wanted

Both these new songs are awful. Didn't Jagger used to be at least a competent lyricist? I guess that was before I was born, though.

Andrew Watt is like the worst producer in the world, these new songs are horrible

looking forward to never hearing anything from this album

is this just going to be that robert smith played a little guitar or something because i can't imagine how that would be a good fit at all otherwise

I can hear Jagger doing a preening "In Between Days."

Or a peeved "Shake Dog Shake."

From the Consequence FB:

Mick Jagger reveals how Robert Smith ended up on The Rolling Stones' new album:

"I turned up one day to do my vocals in London and there's this bloke standing there with his back to me with his long gown on, and when he turned around he was covered in lipstick.

"I've never met him before and I said, 'You are Robert Smith of The Cure.' And he said, he said, 'Yeah, we've never met.' And then I said, 'Well, while you're here then you'd better go and do something.' That's how collaborations work sometimes. Go out and sing the backing vocal."

is that not a clickhole article

Robert smith should have been like no thanks mick jagger

And he said, he said

Best Stones cover art in like 40 years, shame the Andrew Watt production means an automatic skip for me; he should be jailed for pitch correction crimes alone.

Andrew Watt is the Dave Stewart we deserve.

i liked the cover art to A Bigger Bang a lot more than this

i'm a sucker for eurostile and the colours are good but it is still their worst (though not as resonance-free as steel wheels)

I'm 73 and dancing likes a fifteen. Thanks Stones

I'm 80 today and still listening to the Stones WTF Keep on rolling boys.

Attention kids, class is in session, Professor Jagger teaching the pretenders how it's done

They got their "Mojo Going" on this one!

I'd even say they've got their Bobo Honking.

leftover compositions

wasn't 'Waiting on a Friend' exactly this?

I hope they tour this and the entire set is this album in its entirety, plus a handful of hits for the encore.

but I'm not waiting on a Waiting on a Friend

Just listened to some of Andrew Watt's solo music, truly some of the most dire shit I've ever heard. How is it possible that this person keeps getting work?

The CGI Mick Jagger in the new video is... unsettling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT5LwwEHgnc

Also, what's the message here? That this is how many people it takes to make a Rolling Stones album in 2026?

The message seems to be: even when these guys looked young, they were kind of cringe.

i like the song more than anything they've done since bridges to babylon even if the song is a pretty sad commentary on how they view themselves

*the video is a sad commentary

It's only rock & rock and we like it like it Yes we doooo ✌️😎❤️‍🔥

the 70;s are back sex drugs and rock and roll

They should have de-aged the Stones and aged-up Odessa A’zion into her '80s.

They need to have an 80 year old woman dancing around them as they play instead of like Sidney Sweeney.

why not both?

https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/the-most-pause-worthy-moments-in-the-shining/bathtub-grin-in-room-237-1656043155.jpg

Video is awful. Song is better than McCartney's new Wattstrosities, though. I'll give them that.

I think the song is great, I'm easily pleased. Video is just whatever. Pretty impressive deaging if it's deaging; well done face-swapping if that's what it is. One wonders why though.

This video - Justin Hawkins of the Darkness talking about the new song and the video - is really interesting. He's smart (I've interviewed him).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLdPGP5fth0

Pretty great song, agreed; video is weird, and why 600 guitarists, 50 drummers, 20 keyboards and not a single bass player?

I like the Hawkins channel. He's smart and funny. I don't think he offers that much in that particular video, but he does at least introduce a couple of troubling concepts re: AI. I know that Watt hack co-wrote a few songs on the last album, I wonder if he had a hand in this one, too? Because I could totally imagine this slick dork of a producer using AI to massage a Stones song (it's a pretty good song) into shape. I do agree with Hawkins, too, that using AI to prettify the Stones - and especially Keith - totally misses the point. It would have been great had they de-aged the band but still left them torn and frayed rather than shiny and out of the box new.

Pat Finnerty had an Andrew Watt rant the other night, described him as rock's Ponce de Leon, attracting every one of these acts in search of the fountain of youth. Stones, Macca, Pearl Jam, Michael Stipe ...

Yeah, it's funny how the producers these guys use to make themselves feel young and hip and vital — Don Was, Brendan O'Brien — age out, but the artists themselves never do...

Pretty great song, agreed; video is weird, and why 600 guitarists, 50 drummers, 20 keyboards and not a single bass player?

― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, May 17, 2026 12:06 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe mick's been listening to a lot of glenn branca and rhys chatham

I was thinking of the Boredoms Brooklyn 77 drum thing.

I'm 80 today and still listening to the Stones WTF Keep on rolling boys.

comment by Jann Wenner?

listening now, started off with some pretty standard off the rack stones shit

"mr. charm" which is pretty funky and goofy in a late 70s/early 80s stones way that i really love

damn "divine intervention" has a great chorus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mUf_DGhygA

Mr.Charm is like Jagger doing an Ian Dury pastiche. Wouldn't mind hearing it blasting out of the H&M speakers when buying t shirts.

Robert Smith buried on his featured track ;/

"Some Of Us" is lovely. Keith comes in for some respite from the endless Mick.

As I said on Bluesky a couple of weeks ago, StonesCorp is pushing this album REALLY hard. Two music videos, a "visualizer," lyric videos, behind-the-scenes footage, a podcast... it's starting to feel like a final sprint (for them, obviously, but also for their version of rock stardom).

Best since "Hackney Diamonds"!

it's got a handful of pretty good songs which is about the best you could expect at this point

I couldn't stand Hackney this is much better

that AI video was pretty barf though

I'm shocked at how intelligently Mick, Ronnie, and Keith can still talk about how they write and record their music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8fUkrHblrY

that thumbnail is so processed it looks like a screenprint

is this or is this not their best album since Some Girls

It is not. Their best album since Some Girls was Tattoo You, and their best album since Tattoo You was Blue & Lonesome.

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Maybe I am just starved for songs that actually seem to acknowledge what is happening right now, but I really like Divine Intervention.

there's a sweet bonus track called "bad luck hideaway" with mick & keith alternating lines and charlie drumming. available as an apple download apparently.

Pisses all over Hackney Diamonds. I wasn't expecting something actually good.

Agree this is actually good, I'm shocked

They should record a house album and Madonna can record a rock one.

Firing it up.

Took this on a long walk just as I did the Madonna album a week ago (haven't listened to a full album by either since the CD age). And just as the Madonna album has a sense of place (the nightclub), this one has the feel of a small club. The band's clearly not afraid of being what could be either traditional or dumb, rhyming "money" with "honey" and "know my name" with "crying shame." But somehow we're now far enough away from the 80s/90s yuppie blues that this sounds true to itself. And these tempos: thinking how these songs aren't slowing down or mellowing out in the way that Robert Plant and Paul Simon and others have figured out how to do after 75 years old.

Lmao I saw a recycled post on instagram that said the cover looks like a Spitting Image puppet got run over by a car

glad they’re still doing it though, god bless em. Realized the other day day I’m older than they were (barring Bill) when they toured Steel Wheels 💀💀💀

I can't explain how this album is better than Hackney Diamonds.

I haven't listened to it yet, and I may have the order of events off, but could there be anything to the rhythm section of Jordan and Jones, now road tested as well, being even more comfortable in their tandem role? Then again, those two are such total pros I'm not sure all the time spent together would have made a big difference.

I'm not quite sure how to explain the leap in quality but I think in each way it relates to being more relaxed. HD was overproduced yet samey (the two acoustic blues tracks outside) yet carried with it a big sense of event simply because the first album in years, first since Charlie died etc. With that out their system they're finally reimmersing themselves with extra curricular ghosts (e.g. the Emotional Rescue falsetto funk redux of Jealous Lover), superior lyrics (if that was ever a concern), interesting contrast of covers (recent with Amy, early Stones BBC session uncovering with Chuck), meatier tempos as in Divine Intervention and Hit Me in the Head. Maybe the riffs and choruses just work better too idk (Covered in You has been in my head for days).

Darryl Jones funks it up on "Never Wanna Lose You."

the bar I was at played this nearly in full last night, found it hard to believe it was their new album since it actually sounded pretty good. their last one I could barely make it a couple tracks into

No one should care but A Bigger Bang remains a good and often excellent album.

I can't get past the first song on A Bigger Bang. Jagger sounds like Tracy Morgan delivering the opening couplet and I just nope out every time.

Relieved it's not just me that likes this. I just spent a strange and unpleasant week in Barcelona and this album being good was the best thing to happen to me since I left Dover last Friday, so I thought maybe I was imagining it out of pure wishful thinking.

COCKSSSSSS

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"Rain Fall Down" remains their Biggest Banger of the century.

Love "A Bigger Bang"

Love "A Bigger Bang," too, and think the cocks line and fox/henhouse play is clever and funny, tailor made for Jagger, esp. the Little Red Rooster wink.

This is great aside from the three song run from the Winehouse cover (which is beyond terrible) through the two weak Keith tracks.

Ok I’m only a few songs on but I’m thrilled already by how good this is!
Jealous Lover????? is this even real? <3

The praise here had me expecting even better. Some good material but also lots of formulaic Stones rock

FFS I fucking HATE the Amy Winehouse cover. why did they do that.

Love the Keith songs tho

agree that some of it is generic, but it's better than the "hackney" stuff

but blimey "jealous lover" really is that good

low expectations and all that but this is actually good, obv it's insane that these dudes are 82, 82, and 79.

weird that the pitchfork review made a point of dissing Jealous Lover and praising the Winehouse cover. completely wrong! Jealous Lover is a jam

but WHERE is this album's "Rock and a Hard Place"?

i would actually like to do a deep listen to the post-Tattoo You work and try to figure out scientifically and precisely what previous album is the work that is better than this.

We got scientific proof in March 1986

i was going to just add, I know my man Alfred will come in repping for Dirty Work

Cannot stop playing "Divine Intervention"

The mix irritates me: it's so determined to stick every guitar, drum kick, and Jagger mannerism into our faces.

Jealous Lover is delightful! it's in a nice little zone between Some Girls and Exile, but with production from like.. idk a Huey Lewis record. how bad are those drum sounds, my God.