The Rolling Stones Unveil Foreign Tongues Tracklist, With Songs Recast in Multiple Languages

The Rolling Stones have laid out the tracklist for their next album, Foreign Tongues, and even the song titles arrive translated across a handful of languages. It is a suitably odd flourish for a band still finding ways to make a familiar machine feel slightly unsteady. The group’s 25th studio album is set for release on July 10 via Polydor/Universal Music, with guest appearances from Paul McCartney, Robert Smith, Steve Winwood and the late Charlie Watts. Pre-order your copy here.

The album’s lead single, In The Stars, was already out front, paired with the rough, bluesy Rough And Twisted. Now the full 14-track list has been revealed, and the titles have been rendered in actual foreign tongues rather than treated as a gimmick stuck on the sleeve. Among the details previously confirmed is a cover of Amy Winehouse’s You Know I’m No Good, here translated into Polish as Wiesz, ze jestem do niczego.

The full Foreign Tongues tracklist is:

Rough And Twisted

In The Stars

Jealous Love (Amante Jalouse in French)

Mr. Charm (ミスター・チャーム in Japanese)

Divine Intervention (Intervencao Divina in Portuguese)

Ringing Hollow (Rinkelende Holte in Dutch)

Never Wanna Lose You (No quiero perderte nunca in Spanish)

Hit Me In The Head (Calpiscimi in testa in Italian)

You Know I’m No Good (Wiesz, ze jestem do niczego in Polish)

Some Of Us (Nagra av oss in Swedish)

Covered In You (Daekket i dig in Danish)

Side Effects (Bivirkninger in Norwegian)

Back In Your Life (Kembali ke dalam hidupmu in Indonesian)

Beautiful Delilah (Magandang Delilah in Filipino)

At a media event in New York last week, the band also explained how Robert Smith ended up involved. Mick Jagger described the encounter in a way that made the collaboration sound almost accidental, which is often how these things happen when a room full of veterans is trying not to overthink itself. “He was standing there with his back to me and this long gown on and when he turned around, he was covered in lipstick,” Jagger said. “And I said, I never met him before, ‘You’re Robert Smith of The Cure’. And he said, ‘Yeah, we’ve never met’. And I said, ‘While you’re here, you better go and do something’. That’s how collaborations work sometimes,” he smiled.

Back In Your Life carries a different kind of weight. Ronnie Wood wrote it in tribute to Brian Wilson, composing it in the days after the Beach Boys leader’s death last year. That detail gives the title a clearer emotional line than the rest of the album’s multilingual framing, though the Stones have not made a habit of letting sentiment sit too plainly on the surface.

The record was completed in less than a month at Metropolis Studios in West London, with production by Andrew Watt, who also worked with the band on 2024’s Hackney Diamonds. Jagger said he likes recording at Metropolis because the room is smaller and the atmosphere is more immediate. “I love doing these recording sessions in London at Metropolis,” he said. “It was a very intense few weeks recording Foreign Tongues. We had 14 great tracks and we went as fast as we could. I like the room there as it’s not too big so you can feel the passion in the room from everyone.”

Richards, for his part, described the album as carrying “continuity from Hackney Diamonds” and said it retains “that London vibe” the last record had. Wood echoed the same sense of momentum, saying the “atmosphere in the room was so creative, and the whole band was on top form throughout the whole process.” It is the kind of language artists use when a veteran band is working quickly and efficiently, though in the Stones’ case it also points to a familiar strength: they still sound most convincing when the studio feels like a site of pressure rather than polish.

A full tour does not appear to be in the cards any time soon. In late 2025, the band confirmed that plans for a UK and European stadium tour in 2026 had been scrapped because Keith Richards was unable to “commit” to it. Their 2024 North American Hackney Diamonds tour reached Number Six on the list of the highest-grossing music world tours of that year. The last time they played the UK was in 2022, when two London BST Hyde Park shows followed a stadium date in Liverpool.