Foreign Tongues
The Rolling Stones
- First released
- 10 July 2026
- Tracks on this edition
- 14
- Running time
- 62:31
The cover
Nathaniel Mary Quinn made Stones Trinity, a soft-pastel portrait dated 2025, for the Foreign Tongues cover. His gallery, Gagosian, describes the work as a composite portrait that joins the band into a hybrid face.
Cover artwork: Stones Trinity (2025), soft pastel: Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Image via Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz source release
Artwork source and selected track edition are identified separately.
What critics said
Ian Fortnam’s Classic Rock review finds Foreign Tongues enjoyable despite Andrew Watt’s overbearing production. He praises Mick Jagger’s singing, the bounce of “Hit Me in the Head” and the closing force of “Back in Your Life”.
Stuart Berman’s Pitchfork review hears stronger rhythms than on Hackney Diamonds, with Darryl Jones and Steve Jordan coming forward. He nevertheless finds some of the smoothly engineered choruses awkward beside the band’s looser playing.
Production credits
Standard 14-track studio programme
- Producer
- Andrew Watt
- Mixing
- Serban Ghenea (tracks 1–13); Andrew Watt and Paul Lamalfa (track 14)
- Mastering
- Randy Merrill
- Main sessions
- Metropolis Studios, West London
Universal Music · Foreign Tongues · Universal Music · album sessions
Tracklist
US digital edition · 10 July 2026
Select a song for details
- 1Rough and Twisted4:40
- 2In the Stars4:13
- 3Jealous Lover3:50
- 4Mr. Charm4:34
- 5Divine Intervention4:46
- 6Ringing Hollow5:18
- 7Never Wanna Lose You4:31
- 8Hit Me in the Head2:57
- 9You Know I'm No Good4:54
- 10Some of Us4:01
- 11Covered in You4:32
- 12Side Effects4:35
- 13Back in Your Life6:13
- 14Beautiful Delilah3:29
Foreign Tongues, Loose Lips
Foreign Tongues, Loose Lips expands the Rolling Stones’ 2026 album with five additional recordings. Due on 27 November, the 2CD edition places the original 14-song album on CD1 and the additions on CD2. The red 12-inch EP version pairs those five songs with the original album on CD.
- Where There’s A Will
- Who You Callin’ Crazy →4:09 · released October 20
- Human Tide
- Bad Luck Hideaway →
- She Still Comes Around
Steve Winwood plays organ on “Where There’s a Will”, and Courtney Pine features on saxophone on “Who You Callin’ Crazy”. “Bad Luck Hideaway” has Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sharing vocals, with Charlie Watts on drums. It had already appeared as a July iTunes bonus and on the “Mr. Charm” streaming single.
Steve Jordan plays drums on the single. Andrew Watt plays bass and tambourine and produces.
Sources & coverage
About these numbers
Concert figures describe 2,181 distinct archive record IDs from 1962-07-12 to 2024-07-21. Separate same-day record IDs remain separate; they have not all been reviewed as unique performed concerts.
1,506 records have stored song entries; 675 do not. Complete-setlist coverage is not established. Missing entries do not establish that a song was not played.
Song observations count distinct record IDs with a matching title after playback entries are excluded. These are documented appearances, not verified full-song performances. Tour groupings can include warm-up dates.
- MusicBrainz — album identities, editions and track programmes
The catalogue import contains core metadata only. Cover artwork and critical responses have separate sources in the sections above. Annotations, genre associations and database ratings remain excluded.
MusicBrainz data licence - setlist.fm — concert history and setlists
Concert dates, venues and setlists from the editor-supplied archive. Every concert page credits setlist.fm and links to its original record. Song observations are calculated by Glimmer Wire from those entries, with playback excluded.
Snapshot: 2026-10-03T21:42:51Z. Original database supplied and factually approved by the editor; normalized and calculated by Glimmer Wire. Counts can change when records or identities are corrected.
Calculation record
Concert records: distinct concert.setlist_id. Country groups: concert.country_code. Stored entries: records with non-playback setlist_song rows. Song appearances: distinct concert_song.setlist_id matched to setlist_song by record ID, position and exact raw title, excluding tape = 1. This does not use a complete-setlist percentage denominator.
Snapshot SHA-256: 7e86a3e2d0670574fd1e8bf42cd9e4dc99d3325db8db1b471707805387b00e5a
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