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The new Rolling Stones album is the band’s best since Some Girls in 1978. This is usually a claim made by journalists since the mid-1980s to talk up a series of albums – Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges to Babylon – that weren’t even a patch on Some Girls, so you probably won’t believe me when I say their new one, Hackney Diamonds, really is that good. Better, actually. When I tell Mick Jagger how much I enjoyed it, by this point he’s as suspicious as anyone: “I’ve got really good reactions from people that seem to be genuine.”
Given they haven’t released an album of new songs since 2005’s A Bigger Bang, instead doing 2016 covers album Blue & Lonesome and a series of world tours – Jagger still contorting and flinging out his hands like someone grabbing an unfamiliar ski lift – I wasn’t certain what Hackney Diamonds would sound like. Jagger turned 80 earlier this year, and Keith Richards will pass
