The members of the group founded in 1962, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards, shared different elements of the album cover on Instagram, which when put together seem to form a single image.
Jagger showed the bottom part with an illustration of his mouth and chin; Wood the central area, with eyes and nose; and Richards the superior, with disheveled hair and her typical multicolored scarf.
On Friday, May 1, the band released a brief preview of an as-yet-untitled track in a 13-second video posted to their more than 4.2 million followers, featuring their iconic mouth and tongue logo against a moving background.
The message that accompanied the publication included two emojis, one of them a CD, which led followers to interpret that it would be integrated into a new album.
According to the British news agency PA, the group’s first album since 2023 will go on sale on July 10, while it is still unknown if there will be a new tour.
The promotion also included the use of the alias The Cockroaches, an identity the band has toyed with on other occasions for surprise releases.
Under that name, a limited vinyl with the song ‘Rough And Twisted’ was published in April, distributed in independent stores and sold out in a few hours.
The new album will be the first since Hackney Diamonds’ (2023), with which they won a Grammy, and number 25 of their studio career.
Formed in London in 1962, The Rolling Stones maintain one of the most successful careers in rock, with classics like (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Paint It Black either Start Me Up, aplus 14 number one albums and eight singles at the top of the charts in the United Kingdom.
After the death of drummer Charlie Watts in 2021, at age 80, Steve Jordan joined the group, which has been in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 1989.