The Rolling Stones have shared a new track featuring Robert Smith, ‘Divine Intervention’, along with another single, ‘Jealous Lover’. Listen below.
The songs are the latest previews of the legendary band’s upcoming 25th studio album, ‘Foreign Tongues‘, which is out on July 10 via Polydor/Universal Music.
Upon announcing the follow-up to 2023’s Grammy-winning ‘Hackney Diamonds’, Mick Jagger and co. revealed that the record would boast contributions from the Cure frontman, and the likes of Paul McCartney and Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Chad Smith.
‘Divine Intervention’ is a rollicking, high-tempo rock tune, with Smith on electric guitar, and Steve Winwood on piano and organ. The cut is one of two songs to feature Smith on ‘Foreign Tongues’.
Speaking to Vulture about how he enlisted the Cure singer, Jagger recalled how “there was this bloke standing there with his back to me with his long gown on” in the studio, “and when he turned around he was covered in lipstick”.
“He said, ‘Yeah, we’ve never met’,” he continued. “And then I said, ‘Well, while you’re here then you’d better go and do something’. That’s how collaborations work sometimes.”
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The soulful ‘Jealous Lover’, meanwhile, finds frontman Jagger delivering a falsetto lead vocal over a slick yet soulful R&B groove.
“You said you’d let me live my life, no fetters and no chains / I believed your every word, now your tune has changed,” he sings in the first verse. “One day after coffee, you fixed me with a stare / And said, ‘Where were you on Friday night? Tell me who was there’.”
Jagger then returns to his distinctive lower register as he demands: “Hands off, jealous lover / Please let me be / You pray like a Mantis, you’re emerald green…”
Winwood is also credited on the track, playing Rhodes piano and organ.
‘Jealous Lover’ is accompanied by an official music video starring Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit, Peaky Blinders) and Charles Melton (Riverdale, Beef). The clip was directed by Chris Barrett & Luke Taylor (Radiohead, Jack White), and is currently streaming exclusively on Amazon Music – watch here. Alternatively, you can watch an animated lyric video below.
The Stones’ forthcoming album will include the previously released singles ‘Rough And Twisted’ and ‘In The Stars’, as well as a cover of the Amy Winehouse classic ‘You Know I’m No Good’. It’ll also feature the group’s late drummer, Charlie Watts.
Check out the full tracklist for ‘Foreign Tongues’ here.
In other news, The Rolling Stones have announced a new podcast series, Speaking In Tongues, giving fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the making of ‘Foreign Tongues’ across six episodes.
Producer Andrew Watt will appear alongside Robert Smith and Steve Winwood, and the record’s cover artist, Nathaniel Mary Quinn.
Last month, NME attended the ‘Foreign Tongues’ launch event in New York City, where the Stones discussed the diversity of sound on their new album and a country track called ‘Ringing Hollow’.
“Keith and I, when we were really young, we both liked country music a lot,” Jagger explained. “We would play it, we’d always liked Hank Williams. You can’t really imitate those people, but we absorbed that style. ‘Ringing Hollow’, which is a love song to America… I didn’t want to express it in a rock way. I thought it was better that we did it in a country way.”
The frontman also spoke about the inspiration for the LP, saying: “The Stones is a rock band, but the Stones also has the ability to do ballads and country music and dance music, they run in the gamut of all these styles. We’re not stuck in one particular style; over the years, we’ve loved all kinds of music. So, we express that in the way we record and what songs we write.”
Elsewhere, Jagger recently teased the possibility of a new Rolling Stones tour coming up, saying that he hoped to do some “shows next year”. He’d previously said he “can’t wait” to get back out on the road with the group, and Keith Richards hinted that they could confirm some dates for 2027.
In late 2025, the band scrapped plans for a UK and European stadium tour this year because Richards was unable to “commit” to it.
The guitarist has since said that Jagger “won’t bloody stop” making new music. “And the momentum from ‘Hackney Diamonds’ was such that this is basically carrying on in the same breath,” he explained.
“I was just letting it roll – we had enough stuff if we wanted to keep pushing, and so Mick and I gave each other the usual wry look and said: ‘Yeah, let’s keep pushing’.”