The album feels like a continuation of the business that the band started on Hackney Diamonds; at times, the quality of songs on Foreign Tongues supersedes that of Diamonds. While it is a longer album than its predecessor, it never once feels like a band at the end of the road. If anything, they seem more invigorated.

“…no collaboration with Watt has proven to be a better match than Hackney Diamonds, The Rolling Stones’ twenty-fourth full-length album and arguably their best work in decades.”