The new Rolling Stones album "Foreign Tongues" is released today Friday July 10, 2026. It is an album of 14 songs, four of these have been released as singles (A or B sides) during the summer, all 14 songs are listed below.

A special Bonus Track Edition was released on Itunes, also on July 10, with the extra track "Bad Luck Hideaway".

Feel free to post your comments about the new album here, also reports, links, anything related to the release of Foreign Tongues.

For the old pre-release discussions please see the now closed thread:

Foreign Tongues - Pre-Release Talks and Reports (IORR)

TRACK LISTING

1. "Rough and Twisted" 4:40
2. "In the Stars" 4:13
3. "Jealous Lover" 3:50
4. "Mr Charm" 4:34
5. "Divine Intervention" 4:46
6. "Ringing Hollow" 5:18
7. "Never Wanna Lose You" 4:31
8. "Hit Me in the Head" 2:57
9. "You Know I'm No Good" 4:54
10. "Some of Us" 4:01
11. "Covered in You" 4:32
12. "Side Effects" 4:35
13. "Back in Your Life" 6:13
14. "Beautiful Delilah" 3:29
15. "Bad Luck Hideaway" (Bonus Track on Deluxe Edition) (iTunes) 3:50

CREDITS

Mick Jagger – vocals (tracks 1–9, 11–14), background vocals (1–12), electric guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 14), harmonica (1, 8, 9, 11), acoustic guitar (2, 5, 6, 11), percussion (4, 5, 7, 12)
Keith Richards – electric guitar (all tracks), background vocals (2, 4, 6, 11, 12), acoustic guitar (4, 9, 10), piano (8), vocals (10, 14)
Ronnie Wood – electric guitar (1–13), bass guitar (1, 2), background vocals (4, 10)
Charlie Watts – drums (8)
Steve Jordan – drums (1–7, 9–13), percussion (4, 9)
Andrew Watt – electric guitar (1–4, 9, 11, 13), background vocals (1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12), percussion (2, 8, 11–13), acoustic guitar (3, 12, 13), piano (3, 4, 9), synthesizer (3, 5, 7, 12), bass guitar (8)
Matt Clifford – piano (1, 2, 11), organ (1), synthesizer (3), Rhodes (9, 11), synthesizer (11)
James King – tenor saxophone (1, 5, 9, 13), alto saxophone (5, 13), baritone saxophone (9)
Ben Waters – piano (1)
Benmont Tench – organ (2, 10)
Darryl Jones – bass guitar (3–7, 9, 10, 12, 13)
Steve Winwood – organ (3–6, 9, 12, 13), Rhodes (3, 7), piano (5–7, 10, 12, 13)
Naarai Jacobs – background vocals (4)
Robert Smith – electric guitar (5), background vocals (7), synthesizer (7)
Ron Blake – trumpet (5, 9, 13), flugelhorn (13)
Bruno Mars – cowbell (7)
Paul McCartney – bass guitar (11)
Chad Smith – concert bass drum (14)




Bjornulf



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Foreign Tongues - [open.Spotify.com] , [YouTube.com] .

Foreign Tongues - Dolby Atmos - [Tidal.com] - also via Amazon Music or Apple Music.

Foreign Tongues - 96kHz/24bit - [Qobuz.com] , [HighResAudio.com] , [www.HDtracks.com] , [www.ProStudioMasters.com] - ("Tracks 3, 5-8, 14 – 88.2 kHz/24bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz/24bit").

Foreign Tongues - iTunes Bonus Track 'Bad Luck Hideaway' - [X.com] , [RollingStones.lnk.to] .



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after first listen i (still) like rough and twisted quite alot. mr. charm is very cool, the amy cover is pretty close to the original, but quite good. hit me in the head rocks. keith song has a beautiful verse. beautful delilah a great closer.
hackney diamonds has the better songs imho. i couldnt hear anything close to the brilliancy of "sweet sounds of heaven". if HD is a 7.5/10 id rate FT a 6.5/10
i still hope its a grower....

I just started listening to it. It's the Stones, it sounds new and fresh.
What a pleasure and joy to listen to a new Stones album.
Nothing more nothing less.
Can’t wait to hear these tracks life!



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Never wanna lose you is absolutely amazing! The groove! Wow!

Is Never Wanna Lose You the first official Jagger/Richards/Clifford song?

(Edit: just saw „covered in you“ has Matt credited also)



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The Rolling Stones: Foreign Tongues review — a career high, in their eighties

Mick Jagger et al sing about the state of America, ‘mad mogul Mr Musk’, drugs and death in their own inimitable way on this joyful blast of a new album

Will Hodgkinson
July 09 2026

It wasn’t quite Wembley Stadium. But at a time when a question mark hangs over the Rolling Stones’ future as a live band it was, unquestionably, a gig. With Keith Richards otherwise disposed, on Wednesday night Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood picked up acoustic guitars and, backed by the touring member Matt Clifford on keyboards, played three songs in front of about 150 people in a hotel bar in central London. Celebrating the launch of Foreign Tongues, a reduced version of the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band knocked out Dead Flowers, a ragged country song from their 1971 classic Sticky Fingers; a new one called Ringing Hollow, introduced by Jagger as “a love letter to America” but actually more of a lament for what it has become; and the evergreen You Can’t Always Get What You Want, inspiring a singalong by the crowd, Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig among them. I never thought I’d get to see James Bond shouting away to a Stones classic but there’s a first time for everything.

The small but glitzy event marked something remarkable: the Stones reaching a (very) late career high with Foreign Tongues. It’s one thing to be a solo artist making great work in your late seventies and eighties, whether that’s Bob Dylan reflecting on death and the afterlife on 2020’s Rough and Rowdy Ways or Paul McCartney reminiscing about the formation of the Beatles for this year’s The Boys of Dungeon Lane.

A band, with its associations of camaraderie and adventure, do not have the same freedom, and anyway, Jagger has never been one for contemplating the passing of time and what lies beyond. Instead, the Stones have returned with an effervescent album that references their history, from the torn and frayed blues of Exile on Main Street to the uptown sophistication of Some Girls (albeit without the dubious references to the sexual proclivities of women of various ethnicities on that album’s title song), while making them sound relevant and fresh all over again.

The Stones are in essence a live band, and you have to hope that the album will precede their return to the stage. Last year the Stones cancelled a world tour, with Keith Richards feeling he couldn’t commit; he planned to stay at home in Connecticut as he became a great-grandfather for the first time. (Ella Richards, daughter of Keith’s son Marlon, gave birth to Luna Richards von Bismarck in May.) Arthritis has indeed forced the man known as the Human Riff to change his playing approach, but in 2024 the Stones were playing some of the best concerts of their career.

At the launch Jagger confirmed: “We hope we go on tour, Ronnie and I are really into that, so we hope we see everyone on the road.” A week earlier, Jagger told the Argentinian radio station La Nacion that the Stones were hoping to stage a proper world tour in 2027 rather than a Harry Styles-esque residency, because that would “cost twice as much” for fans to attend. For that reason we should hope the lack of a tour to go with this album is a temporary blip. After all, Jagger joined the kids at his old school, Dartford Grammar, for a song to mark the 25th anniversary of its Mick Jagger Centre last year, and sang in a folk session at a pub in Oxford in June, as well as the album launch set. But those are small gigs. We want the Stones to do big ones again.

Perhaps Foreign Tongues is such a fully formed work because the enforced time off the road focused the band in the studio. The Stones recorded the better part of the album over a month in Metropolis, Chiswick, for the most part live, giving the album an urgency accordingly. And Jagger has touched on something he has for the most part avoided ever since the disaster of the Altamont Speedway concert in December 1969, where a young fan died at the hands of Hell’s Angels hired as security in the revolutionary spirit of the age: political commentary.

“Lady Liberty don’t look so good when there’s a tear in her gown,” Jagger sings on a sweet country ballad called Ringing Hollow. At first it comes across as a standard-issue love song, before you realise it is actually a love letter to America as an idea and a reflection on whether the country the Stones fell in love with as kids is still there.

Even Mr Charm, a seemingly preposterous sped-up rant about Jagger trying to seduce a woman via the unusual method of showing her images from the First World War, has something to say on what’s important in life. As he does his best to show the object of his affections how charming he is, Jagger points out that an evening with him is surely preferable to taking off into space with “mad mogul Mr Musk”. While the world’s first trillionaire and his unquenchable ego might get a boost from being in a Stones song, most people will be in agreement with Jagger on which is the more appealing option.

Elsewhere, Foreign Tongues demonstrates how the Stones have never stuck to one genre or style and yet always end up sounding just like themselves. Rough and Twisted goes back to the raw blues the band first got going with in the early 1960s, when they were doing Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf covers and singing about an America they had no experience of, before their 19-year-old manager Andrew Loog-Oldham locked Jagger and Richards into a kitchen and told them they weren’t coming out until they wrote a song.

Jealous Lover, for which Steve Winwood contributes warm, rolling Fender Rhodes electric piano, is falsetto soul in the Curtis Mayfield tradition and also reminiscent of the Stones’ 1976 hit Fool to Cry: tender and laid-back.

Within all this is a punk song, or at least a song that demonstrates Jagger’s idea of punk. Hit Me in the Head is one of those pure Mick moments that have popped up on Stones albums for the past few decades. You can imagine it inspiring raised eyebrows and resigned sighs from Richards and Wood, as they indulge their singer while he chases after modern fashions, even if this particular fashion is now half a century old.

“One of these days I’ll fall down dead. And I’ll go a lot quicker if you hit me in the head,” he snarls against a ferocious tempo from the late Charlie Watts (he contributed to early recordings of the track before his death in 2021). And you realise this is the deepest Jagger will go when it comes to reflecting on mortality. For someone so eternally youthful, being bludgeoned to death with a hammer is surely preferable to a slow crawl toward decrepitude. He’s actually being quite profound here, in his own unsentimental way.

Not that a Rolling Stones album is all about the frontman. Richards still has a way of cranking out riffs so brilliantly simple you cannot believe nobody has come up with them before. A great one blasts through In the Stars, the harmony-laden first single from the album. Divine Intervention showcases Richards’ and Wood’s ability to weave their guitars so that you don’t know where one ends and the other begins.

It all leads to the Stones sounding exactly as they should, with the new drummer Steve Jordan honouring Watts’s unforced approach while whirling organs, country piano licks, funky cowbells and blasts of brass drop in along the way.

Credit must go to Andrew Watt, a 35-year-old pop producer from New York with a love of classic rock, who worked on the Stones’ 2023 album Hackney Diamonds and McCartney’s new one. Oh yes, McCartney turns up too, playing bass on the Some Girls-like funky rocker Covered in You.

Watt has galvanised the Stones into action and brought out the best in them but it’s the band’s enduring spirit and chemistry that make Foreign Tongues so vibrant. Richards is a traditionalist soaked in blues and country, Jagger loves all things new, Wood wants to keep the peace and keep on rocking, and all three know that for what amounts to a bar band done good, the Rolling Stones still have something unique, life-affirming and not entirely wholesome. It’s all there in this joyful album, a blast from beginning to end. (Polydor)



[www.thetimes.com]

Great record. Classic? Too early to say. Suffice to say there are more than enough great songs here.

Bought the Apple Music version with the extra track as the preview of it sounded so good

Got a 15 track version of the album, in a completely different order, but with 30 second previews only of Hit me in the Head, Ringing Hollow, Rough & Twisted and Bad Luck Hideaway, which is now the second song on the album which starts with Back in Your Life, and now ends with You Know I’m no Good. What a clusterfvck by Apple.

Rod

First feeling after first listen.
Its AWESOME! True Stones music. Love it!
Favorite tracks. In The Stars, Never Wanna Lose You, You Know Im No Good, Back In Your Life



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had a listen three times on youtube thru a vpn

it's was fun and i enjoyed it

but it for me is really not much better or worse then any of the albums post steels wheels

if pushed i'd say it's about on par with a abb (which i like too) and that hackney was slightly better

so while not a classic tattoo you or even undercover level album to me it's still pretty solid

none of the songs are outright bad

a really impressive feat at this point in there careers

my appraisal may improve upon hearing it on vinyl since i have to say i really find the mastering/mix very unpleasant to experience on youtube and likely will on all digital formats

which is a shame because there's a lot of interesting stuff going on musically all over the album but it's buried under all this painful to listen to noise

standout tracks for now

jealous lover has really grown on me because at first i was a little put off by it

now i view it as a continuation of side two of tattoo you but for the twenty first century

divine intervention is just a great song

mr. charm is a really good song with a fantastic performance from mick (auto tune or not his singing here is great) and a lovely solo from what i hear as keith

even from the short preview i can tell bad luck hideaway is by far the greatest thing on this album and relegating it to bonus track status on a digital only (for now) version of the album is infuriating

but i guess it was a smart move from the marketing team because it'll definitely get a lot of us to buy the album on itunes



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Thus far, Ringing Hollow, Divine Interventions, and Mr Charm are my three favourites. There’s definitely a few so-so moments, though. Im not sure about Keith’s Some Of Us.

Edit: Back in Your Lice is a grower; love Ronnie’s soloing.



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I am in Australia, but unable to purchase the bonus track Bad Luck Hideaway as the bonus track version is U.S iTunes only (and even if I could access U.S iTunes, it would require me to buy the whole album, which I don't want to do as I've already purchased the Deluxe CD version). Is there a kind soul out there who can help?

Enjoying it, and just hearing absorbing it but first gut feel is Hackney is better crafted, more true to the band. A lot of this sounds like Jagger solo with Matt Clifford.

I’ve been listening for a couple of hours, now; not really in order, but I’m liking the album more and more. Back in Your Life is beautiful, and Keith’s Some of Us is growing on me. Ringing Hollow is the best track, I think. So far, it’s the Amy cover and, I hate to type this, Hit Me In The Head isn’t working for me. Better than Hackney Diamonds? Yes, I would say so.

Songwriting, close collaboration with Andy Watt, videos, marketing, promotional campaign – FT is Mick’s project, which Ronnie (yes, quite actively) and, very modestly, Keith joined at his request and in line with his needs, until the pirate missed the only live performance and failed to report on it at all.

FT is Mick’s best solo album since *Wandering Spirit* and, as he himself has said, he is already working on its follow-up. Keith hasn’t said a word about it, and for good reason…



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I used to write for the Shattered fanzine back in the day.

A friend asked for my review, and this is what I sent him:

Foreign Tongues – The Rolling Stones *****

I know what it's like to be disappointed by The Rolling Stones
Undercover was a title track and little else. Emotional Rescue was a stilted let down coming straight after Some Girls. Dirty Work hurt my ears and offered few tunes. And worst of all, the oh-so-bland Anybody Seen my Baby? All I could think at the time was.. has anybody seen my band?

…. But today, I am not disappointed. If Hackney Diamonds was the Stones climbing out of the coffin, then Foreign Tongues is the sound of the band doing the splits, cartwheels and pirouettes. The sheer energy, the quality of the songs, I am taken aback by it.
From the blues stomp of Rough and Twisted to the epic ballad Back In Your Life, via funky hook-laden bangers like Covered in You and Mr. Charm I have been royally entertained for the last hour. And then came Beautiful Delilah, performed by Mick and Keith alone ; a lo-fi acoustic rave-up to bookend the album.
Is there anything here as good as Gimme Shelter, Brown Sugar rr Satisfaction? No, and why should there be? 64 years into their career, the Stones could not hope to have that impact; their days at the frontier of culture are long gone. But the looseness, the sense of joy that permeates every track, lift this album above anything they've done in the last 45 years. Ye,s Charlie is no longer with us and Bill checked out a long time ago, but as long as Mick and Keith are at it, the Stones are still here, weathered but wiser and on the evidence of this album, energised by their own mortality. It's very late in the day, but the Rolling Stones are going to party till they drop

Now having played the album through twice today I can heartily say I like it very much, Foreign Tongues like Hackney Diamonds has a wonderful mix of different styles, I can see this album getting plenty of play time from me.

Plenty of highlights across the album, I really like Mr. Charm which gets a solid groove going, the stripped back tunes like Ringing Hollow have the most classic Stones character to them to my ears.

Back In Your Life is a wonderful song with Ronnie's playing really lifting it up to another level, the horns at the end give me Beatles vibes, this is the song they should have asked Paul McCartney to play on.

Beautiful Delilah was a great choice for the album closing tune which harks back to their roots like Rolling Stone Blues on Hackney Diamonds just as effectively.

The iTunes bonus song Bad Luck Hideaway is really good also, it benefits from having leaner production giving the song room to breathe.

Having only played it once so far. I need to relisten a couple of times to make my verdict. If some of us was not a Keith song and instead a full Stones song I think it could have been much better. Good riff and feel.

Am I the only one thing that less is better?
Isn’t it a little bit over produced?

Incredible album that doesn't have near the filler I thought it would having that many songs. It doesn't have a Hackney Diamonds 2.0 feel either, the production is better

I just listened to it in the car on my way to the office; unfortunately, I'm at work now so I can't keep listening for the moment—I'll have to catch the rest this afternoon. I skipped the four songs I already knew. I really like "Mr Charm"; "Ringing Hollow" is a lovely country song; and "You Know I'm No Good"—that Amy Winehouse cover—is beautiful. I'll continue with "Some of Us" later. I'm very happy with what I've heard so far. How is it even possible to create something like this when you're over 80?

I thought Ronnie mentioned that Keith didn't play any solos, but the (1st) solo on
Devine Intervention sounds very much like Keith, doesn't it?

Just as long as the guitar plays, let it steal your heart away

Waited all day for this to be available in my part of the world. Didn’t want to do VPN, plus after intending to just stream it on Apple Music, I purchased the iTunes version to hear the bonus track. So glad that I did, as I went into this liking what had been released so far and I hoped to at least get a few more new tracks to enjoy, but wow was I surprised to love the whole album. Felt like it ended much too soon and then the added on Bad Luck Hideaway was like the cherry on top. So thankful to have this new music, and I for one am impressed by this band yet again, just like I have been so many times before. Thank you Rolling Stones.
I lost my brother recently, and while this doesn’t change that or take it away, it does do what the Stones have done so many times in my life, give my soul music to help carry me through.

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You got to roll me...call me the tumbling dice.

So last night I purchased the red vinyl and listened to it again just now. With my favorite band I am not too critical I confess. But this album is really good. They did a wonderful job recording very different songs. Each one is a universe on its on. Charlies and Stevies drums are amazing, guitars are crisp and Mick‘s voice - I want to sound like that when I am 80.
can’t wait for them to tour. But this album is a gift already.

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NilsHolgersson
I just listened to it in the car on my way to the office; unfortunately, I'm at work now so I can't keep listening for the moment—I'll have to catch the rest this afternoon. I skipped the four songs I already knew. I really like "Mr Charm"; "Ringing Hollow" is a lovely country song; and "You Know I'm No Good"—that Amy Winehouse cover—is beautiful. I'll continue with "Some of Us" later. I'm very happy with what I've heard so far. How is it even possible to create something like this when you're over 80?

The input of Andrew Watt into these last two albums shouldn't be underestimated. The guy is a bit of a genius.

Not as great as HD. But that one was exceptional if you ask me.

However, the fact that they release a new album is just awesome. And there are some fantastic songs on it.

First impression: This is an album which might take a few listens before you can judge its quality

With that I‘ll leave it here and listen to the record some more times

I just got the iTunes version and listened to Bad Luck Hideaway twice in a row. It's another winner.

I'm about to listen to the whole album again. Right now I'm struggling to find things I don't like. I'm pleasantly surprised to find out there are so many uptempo songs that sound so fresh and original. It's tremendously entertaining for me so far

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roby
Songwriting, close collaboration with Andy Watt, videos, marketing, promotional campaign – FT is Mick’s project, which Ronnie (yes, quite actively) and, very modestly, Keith joined at his request and in line with his needs, until the pirate missed the only live performance and failed to report on it at all.

FT is Mick’s best solo album since *Wandering Spirit* and, as he himself has said, he is already working on its follow-up. Keith hasn’t said a word about it, and for good reason…

Always one....

Nice review in Swedish Aftonbladet (finally) 4/5. [www.aftonbladet.se]