The Rolling Stones Are Engaged on New Music, Andrew Watt Confirms

Producer Andrew Watt cannot give precise particulars, however he can affirm that the Rolling Stones are at work on some new music.

“I’ve mentioned it earlier than, but it surely’s like working for Batman,” he just lately admitted to Rolling Stone. “When the tongue is up within the air, you simply go…I can say we did some recording collectively, however that is all I can say.”

Whether or not or not the music will make up a full new studio album stays to be seen. One factor Watt has shared beforehand is that the band had greater than sufficient music to select from when making 2023’s Hackney Diamonds. (Their final album of authentic materials earlier than that was 2005’s A Larger Bang.)

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“It was a prolific time for the band,” Watt advised Rolling Stone earlier this yr. “They’d amassed, like, 18 years of fabric. There was a lot to undergo and select from initially, after which there have been new songs that simply got here as a result of everybody was rolling and sort of flying.”

Extra Info From Keith Richards’ Son

However do not take it from Watt — take it as properly from Keith Richards‘ son Marlon, who additionally confirmed that the Stones have been engaged on one thing in an interview with Document Collector printed earlier this month.

“They’re on the town proper now, recording,” he mentioned (by way of NME). “They’re in Chiswick [West London] or someplace like that; I believe they’re almost performed. They nonetheless preserve these ridiculous hours: after lunch till, like, two within the morning. I might moderately be someplace else at the moment of night time! Except you are in it, it is fairly boring.”

However like Watt, Richards was not sure of precisely what the brand new materials will flip into.

“I suppose an album – they’ve sufficient left over from the final one,” he mentioned. “They gave them a Grammy, so now they’re all overrated on that: ‘Oh, yeah – we are able to do one other one like that! We have got extra like that in order for you…’ I believe they’re doing the follow-up.”