{"id":744778,"date":"2026-06-18T10:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744778\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:41:17","slug":"the-rolling-stones-foreign-tongues-album-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744778\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rolling Stones – Foreign Tongues album review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nYou can trust Louder<\/p>\n

Our experienced team has worked for some of the biggest brands in music. From testing headphones to reviewing albums, our experts aim to create reviews you can trust. Find out more about how we review.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Knowing when to leave the party is crucial. The Rolling Stones<\/a>\u2019 storied 64-year career has been offering potential exits to its central protagonists for decades. Stones fans have been scooping up tickets for shows that \u2018could be their last\u2019 since at least \u201976. The 2021 death of Charlie Watts seemed unsurvivable, yet the Stones endured. Not just for what felt a lot like a farewell tour, but for Hackney Diamonds<\/a>, an unlikely zeitgeist-grabbing triumph of an LP that closed, appropriately enough, with Rolling Stone Blues. The circle complete, all that was left for the Stones to do was call a cab. But here we are.<\/p>\n

Foreign Tongues had been rock\u2019s worst-kept secret for some time before lead single (and album opener) Rough And Twisted dropped in April to acclaim and relief (a typical low-end-heavy Andrew Watt production captured the 21st-century Stones at their predictable best). Media duly frenzied. Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

The Rolling Stones – In The Stars (Official Video) – YouTube
\n\"The<\/p>\n

Watch On <\/a>
\n<\/p>\n

Then In The Stars, a BV-heavy slow-burner, arrived to relatively muted response, ditto the debut of the album\u2019s unflattering sleeve (a merged collage of MickKeithRon\u2019s faces by Nathaniel Mary Quinn). Guest star turns were promised: Macca, Winwood, Smiths Chad and Robert, another from Charlie, and the planet prepared for, well, Hackney Diamonds II.<\/p>\n

So here goes. Trigger alert: Jealous Lover recalls Emotional Rescue. Mick Jagger clearly feels the best way to showcase ageless vocal prowess is falsetto. And yes, if there\u2019s one irrefutable plus about FT, it\u2019s Jagger\u2019s performance. Identikit belter Mr Charm finds K \u2019n\u2019 R weaving reliably. More falsettos define billionaire bash Divine Intervention, Ringing Hollow deploys a Dear Doctor drawl, Never Wanna Lose You\u2019s a dance-inflected Some Girls-by-numbers, while Some Of Us finds reflective C&W balladeer KR on his knees.<\/p>\n

The Rolling Stones – Foreign Tongues | Album Trailer – YouTube
\n\"The<\/p>\n

Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n

Highlight? The relief of Charlie\u2019s masterful signature bounce on punk-paced Hit Me In The Head. Lowlight? 82-year-old Mick delivering the line \u2018lick your lips as I soap my feet\u2019 on a Strange Game-recalling cover of Amy Winehouse\u2019s You Know I\u2019m No Good.<\/p>\n

Despite an ultimately wearing, overbearing Watt production job, Foreign Tongues duly delivers as a pretty good Stones album. Closing barnstormer Back In Your Life\u2019s pure gold helps, before a final, deliberately rough take on Chuck\u2019s Beautiful Delilah reprises Hackney Diamonds\u2019 Rolling Stone Blues where-we-came-in sign-off.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Rolling Stones: Foreign Tongues: Price Comparison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can trust Louder Our experienced team has worked for some of the biggest brands in music. From…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-744778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}