Foreign Tongues
2026 studio album by the Rolling Stones
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Foreign Tongues is the upcoming twenty-fifth studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, scheduled for release on 10 July 2026. The lead single "In the Stars" was released through YouTube and streaming services on 5 May 2026 along with double A-side "Rough and Twisted", which had previously been released only in extremely limited quantities as a physical twelve-inch single several weeks earlier under the pseudonym of The Cockroaches, which the band had occasionally used in the 1970s to perform secret shows at smaller venues.[1] Produced by Andrew Watt, the album features guest contributions from Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Robert Smith and Chad Smith. It will also feature the final song to be recorded with Charlie Watts prior to his death.[2]
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| Released | 10 July 2026 | |||
| Recorded | 2019, 2022-2023, 2025-2026 | |||
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| Genre | Blues rock | |||
| Length | 62:33 | |||
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| Producer | Andrew Watt | |||
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Background and release
The album, titled Foreign Tongues and produced by Andrew Watt,[3] is planned for release on 10 July 2026.[4] Ronnie Wood first 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."[5] Reports dispel rumours that it will be their last album, and assert that the band have written at least 10 more songs for an album after it.[3]
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 11 April 2026,[6] including only 1,000 vinyl copies to select records stores.[7] 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 11 April 2026.[8][9]
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."[3]
The album will reportedly primarily consist 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.[10][11]
On 25 April 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.[12]
On 2 May 2026, the album artwork was unveiled, showing Wood, Richards, and Jagger's "faces seem[ing] to merge into one", an artwork possibly inspired by the art of British painter Francis Bacon, reported to be reminiscent of a "better version of the cover to Metallica's 2016 album Hardwired... to Self-Destruct."[13] The next day, the band teased further details to be released on 5 May.[14]
On 5 May 2026, the band confirmed that Foreign Tongues will be released on 10 July 2026, also launching the album's first single, "In the Stars", on YouTube and other streaming services,[15][16] 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.[17]
The album will feature guest appearances by Paul McCartney, Robert Smith (The Cure), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), and Steve Winwood. The band's final recording with Watts is also featured; it was recorded 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.[16]