The Rolling Stones announce new album, ‘Foreign Tongues’
NEW YORK (AP) — Inside the transformed Williamsburgh Savings Bank in Brooklyn — constructed within the 1870s, now the positioning of luxurious occasions held beneath gorgeous Victorian structure — the Rolling Stones stored their followers wanting extra.
Earlier Tuesday, the band confirmed that they are going to launch a new record, titled “Foreign Tongues,” this summer season, and dropped a new single known as “In The Stars.”
Journalists, VIPs and celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, Odessa A’zion and Lindsey Vonn waited within the echoing corridor to witness Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood’s first dialog concerning the new album.
To have a good time, they invited comedian Conan O’Brien to host the unique announcement occasion. It was a hilarious selection. “I think this is the one, after years of toiling in darkness,” he joked about “Foreign Tongues,” minutes earlier than the band joined him on stage. “This is their time.”
What we find out about ‘Foreign Tongues’ thus far
“Foreign Tongues,” recorded over the course of a month in London, can be launched July 10.
The Stones’ final album was 2023’s “Hackney Diamonds.” It was their first album of authentic materials in 18 years — since 2005’s “A Bigger Bang.” It was additionally their first full-length launch for the reason that dying of drummer Charlie Watts in 2021. He appeared posthumously on two of that album’s 12 tracks.
“Foreign Tongues” may also embrace a particular look from Watts, lifted from one in all his ultimate recording classes earlier than his dying. “We did that in LA with Charlie,” Jagger stated of the music. “It’s real fast, a punk-rocker.”
The album may also characteristic contributions from Steve Winwood, Paul McCartney, the Cure’s Robert Smith and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith.
“I think Paul (McCartney) really wanted to jump in there,” Jagger stated on the occasion. “There was no intimidation. He wanted to play with the band.”
The Stones additionally labored with their shut collaborators Matt Clifford, drummer Steve Jordan and bassist Darryl Jones in addition to Oscar-winning pop producer Andrew Watt (recognized for his work with Post Malone and justin bieber and the Stones’ “Hackney Diamonds,” to call a number of).
When one thing is not working within the studio, the band stated Watt is the one who kicks them into gear. The room erupted into cheers for him — together with his dad and mom, who had been seated instantly behind him — and O’Brien in contrast the “immediacy” of the new album to “Exile on Main Street.”
The band additionally frolicked detailing the report’s art work. “Let’s reveal the album cover, I call him Mr. Ugly,” stated Jagger, earlier than the quilt appeared on the display above their heads. “He’s pained by a famous new artist called Nathaniel Quinn.”
Quinn, who was seated within the entrance row, stated it was an amalgamation of the band members’ faces and an outline of their journey.
A style of ‘Foreign Tongues’
Speculation surrounding a new Stones album has been going round for weeks. First, posters appeared round London with the band identify “The Cockroaches,” a pseudonym the Stones’ have used previously, together with a QR code. The code led to ‘thecockroaches.com’ and a sign-up web page. Once a consumer had signed up, they obtained a affirmation message from Universal Music — the Stones’ label. Representatives didn’t present The Associated Press with remark or affirmation on the time.
Eventually it led to a white label, vinyl-only launch of the observe “Rough and Twisted” utilizing The Cockroaches identify — the primary true tease of “Foreign Tongues,” decipherable solely by their most devoted followers.
Then, within the week main as much as their announcement, billboards with the band’s iconic mouth and tongue emblem started showing in main cities world wide with the phrases “Foreign Tongues” in numerous languages: “Fremmede Sprog,” “Vreemde Tongen,” “Dayuhang Dila,” “외국어,” and “Langues Étrangères” amongst them. Around the identical time, the Rolling Stones’ official web site was up to date to characteristic video clips stylized to appear like surveillance footage of them within the studio.
On Sunday, the band shared a slide puzzle graphic followers believed to be the album art work, depicting a cartoonish collage of the members’ faces. (They had been appropriate; it was the official album cowl.) There was additionally a brief video clip, simply 10-seconds lengthy, that appeared to tease a new music.
The story behind ‘Rough and Twisted’
“It’s a fantasy about a woman that promises a lot of things and then what happens to you in life, you get involved in these terrible places that she takes you to,” Jagger advised The Associated Press. “It’s a Blues fantasy, really… it’s fairly amorphous. It’s very much just my unconscious ramblings.”
Wood jumped in and stated he used the identical guitar he used on Faces’ 1971 observe “Stay With Me” — his mission with Rod Stewart — on “Rough and Twisted.” “It was so spontaneous,” he stated. “We even surprised ourselves with it.”
“When you get in the studio, and the guys get together, and you lay out a track, an idea, and you let it take off from there — you can’t plan all of this stuff,” Richards stated of their new materials. “You kind of just have to follow it and hope you come out the other end.”
The Stones’ ‘Tonight Show’ takeover and what comes subsequent
“The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” will host the surviving members of the Stones throughout three nights this month, NBC introduced Tuesday.
Jagger will seem on Wednesday’s present and Fallon will host Richards on Thursday. Wood will seem on May 13.
No extra particulars on whether or not the band will carry out collectively on the present had been instantly launched.
But will followers get to see them carry out “Foreign Tongues” on a new tour? Maybe. “I would love to tour the album,” Jagger advised AP. “I absolutely would love it. I hope to do it as soon as that’s possible.”
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Associated Press Writer John Carucci contributed to this report.