The Rolling Stones are back with Foreign Tongues, a 14-track album that proves their creative engine is still running hot. Arriving less than three years after Hackney Diamonds, the record feels connected to that era without simply retracing it.
“Rough and Twisted” opens the album with a loose, blues-soaked punch, while “In the Stars” leans brighter and more immediate. “Jealous Lover” brings the soul. Together, the singles offer a glimpse of a band still comfortable taking risks inside a sound they helped define.
The album also reaches beyond its original material. The Stones take on Amy Winehouse’s “You Know I’m No Good” and close with Chuck Berry’s “Beautiful Delilah,” linking the record to two very different corners of their musical DNA. Charlie Watts also appears on “Hit Me In The Head,” captured during one of his final sessions before his death in 2021.
Recorded in less than a month at Metropolis Studios in West London, Foreign Tongues reunites Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood with producer Andrew Watt. The guest list runs deep too, with Steve Winwood, Paul McCartney, Robert Smith, and Chad Smith adding their own fingerprints.
What stands out most is the urgency. This does not sound like a band protecting its history. It sounds like one still chasing the next spark.
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