After taking a break for six years, the members of Rolling Stones return to making music and released their first single "Doom and Gloom."
"Doom and Gloom," released by the ageing rockers on Oct. 1 to mark their 50th anniversary is one of the two new songs on their upcoming greatest hits album "GRRR!" that will hit shelves on Nov. 12.
"Received music industry wisdom has it that new Rolling Stones material exists purely to flog compilation albums or tour tickets," wrote games editor, Dan Silver, in the Mirror tabloid. "It's with some relief that we report it's actually rather good," he added in a three-out-of-five star review.
"The best bit is when he stops singing and starts blowing," Neil McCormick of the Daily Telegraph said, referring to the harmonica interlude.
NME wrote, "Keef's riffs are fresh as ever, Jagger yelps, claps and croons about getting hammered like he's still living it up down the LSE bar, and there's a Zep-tastic breakdown that thankfully stops the whole thing sounding too much like Primal Scream's Rocks - a concept that would launch music into an inescapable loop of influence as confusing as a bad time travel plot."
Silver praised the "nicotine-stained chords" of Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards on guitar and Charlie Watts's "customary magic" on the drums, but said that "If there's a weak link here then it's actually Jagger, who honks and caterwauls over the track like one of his own tribute artists. His extended enunciation is excruciating - almost to the point of parody in places.
"No, the first new Stones song in seven years is a revitalizing reminder of what made them great in the first place, a tune that will sit seamlessly amongst their classics."
Jagger, Richards, Wood and Watts are also preparing to release their "Crossfire Hurricane" documentary and a photobook in time for Christmas.
They will walk the red carpet at the London premiere of the film on Thursday.
