Producer Andrew Watt says the Rolling Stones are working on new music, though he declined to share specifics.
“I’ve said it before, but it’s like working for Batman,” Watt told Rolling Stone. “When the tongue is up in the air, you just go. I can say we did some recording together, but that’s all I can say.”
It remains unclear if the new material will result in a full studio album. Watt previously told Rolling Stone that the band had more than enough music to choose from when making 2023’s “Hackney Diamonds,” their first album of original material since 2005’s “A Bigger Bang.”
“It was a prolific time for the band,” Watt said. “They had amassed, like, 18 years of material. There was so much to go through and choose from initially, and then there were new songs that just came because everyone was rolling and kind of flying.”
Keith Richards’ son, Marlon Richards, also confirmed the band’s recording activity in a recent interview with Record Collector.
“They’re in town right now, recording,” Marlon Richards said, according to NME. “They’re in Chiswick or somewhere like that; I think they’re nearly done. They still maintain these ridiculous hours: after lunch until, like, two in the morning.”
Richards said it is unclear what form the new music will take.
“I guess an album – they have enough left over from the last one,” he said. “They gave them a Grammy, so now they’re all hyped up on that. ‘Oh, yeah – we can do another one like that! We’ve got more like that if you want.’ I think they’re doing the follow-up.”
