WHY DON'T YOU TAKE ME
DOWN THIS ROUGH AND TWISTED ROAD
YES, WHY DON'T YOU TEACH ME
TEACH ME,
ALL THOSE FOREIGN TONGUES ?
Foreign Tongues
is the twenty-fifth
studio album by
the English rock band
released on
July 10th 2026.
Produced by
Andrew Watt,
the album features
musical contributions from
Steve Jordan,
Darryl Jones,
Steve Winwood,
Robert Smith,
Paul McCartney,
Benmont Tench,
Bruno Mars,
and
Chad Smith,
among others.
It also features a song
recorded with
Charlie Watts
prior to his death.
The lead single,
"In the Stars",
was released through
YouTube
and streaming services
on
May 5th 2026
only in extremely
limited quantities
as a physical 12-inch single
several weeks earlier under
the pseudonym of
The Cockroaches,
which the band had
occasionally used
in the 1970's
to perform secret shows
at smaller venues.
A second single,
"Jealous Lover",
was released on
June 26th
Background and release
Foreign Tongues
is produced by
Andrew Watt.
Ronnie Wood f
irst confirmed in
late September 2025
that fans would be
getting a new
Rolling Stones album
when he told
UK publication
The Sun,
"Yes, you will be getting a new
album next year. It is done."
Reports dispeled rumours
that it will be their last album,
and asserted that the band
have written at least
10 more songs for
an album after it.
The album was first teased
as part of a marketing campaign
for the single
"Rough and Twisted",
credited to pseudonym
The Cockroaches,
which was released on
April 11th 2026,
including only
1,000 vinyl copies
to select records stores.
A number of publications
had also erroneously announced
in the days leading up
to its release that
a song entitled
"Mr Charm"
was rumoured to be released
as the lead single
for a new
Rolling Stones album on
April 11th 2026.
Of the single,
Will Hodgkinson of
The Times stated that it had
"a killer riff,
a rambunctious harmonica solo
from
Mick Jagger,
a devil-may-care spirit
and the feeling that,
six decades on from
first crawling out of a
notoriously squalid flat
in Edith Grove,
southwest London,
to play the blues in
smoke-clogged pubs
and clubs along
the Surrey Delta,
the Rolling Stones
are still a chaotic bar band
forever on the
verge of collapse,
happiest in the most
low-down dives.
"The album primarily consists of
new material,
with a handful of leftover
compositions from the band's
last album,
Hackney Diamonds,
as well as material from
the band's final session
with drummer
Charlie Watts
in 2021,
as confirmed by Jagger
at a press conference
hosted by the band in
New York City.
On April 25th 2026,
the band posted
20 photographs
onto their official
Facebook page
taken in different countries
showing street views
with posters announcing
the words
Foreign Tongues
written in different languages,
which was later to be revealed
as the title of their
new studio album.
On May 2nd 2026,
the album's front cover
was unveiled,
a 2025 painting by
American painter
Nathaniel Mary Quinn
entitled
Trinity
showing Wood,
Richards,
and Jagger's
"faces seem[ing] to merge into one".
The next day,
the band teased further details
to be released on
May 5th
On May 5th 2026,
the band confirmed that
Foreign Tongues
would be released on
July 10th 2026,
also launching the album's
first single,
"In the Stars",
on YouTube
and other streaming services,
and also included
the complete audio version of
"Rough and Twisted"
digitally as a double A-side to
"In the Stars"
three and a half weeks
after its physical release.
The band released a
music video for
"In the Stars",
featuring Odessa A'zion,
on May 14th 2026.
The album features
guest appearances by
Paul McCartney,
Robert Smith
(the Cure),
Chad Smith
(Red Hot Chili Peppers),
and
Steve Winwood
and
Bruno Mars.
The band's recording with
Watts
occurred during a session in
Los Angeles
shortly before
his death in 2021.
Several tracks included on
Hackney Diamonds
were recorded
during the same
Los Angeles sessions
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