The album, titled
Foreign Tongues and produced by
Andrew Watt, is planned for release on 10 July 2026. 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." 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. 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 11 April 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." 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. 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." The next day, the band teased further details to be released on 5 May. 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, 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 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. == References ==