Bridges to Babylon

Rock · 1997 · 13 tracks

Bridges to Babylon

The Rolling Stones

A polished, experimental fusion of classic blues-rock swagger and nineties production, featuring unexpected loops, urban grooves, and late-night atmospheric ballads.

Modernist detour

A sleek, nocturnal restlessness pulses through this late-nineties metropolitan landscape, where the group's classic guitar-weaving collides with modern studio craft. The air is thick with the hum of trip-hop loops and contemporary urban grooves, casting a cinematic, dark-hued shadow over their traditional blues-rock foundation.

Bridges to Babylon · vs · The Rolling Stones

Restless+4.0σ

Restless saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks

01

Flip the Switch

3:27

02

Anybody Seen My Baby?

4:31

03

Low Down

4:24

04

Already Over Me

5:24

05

Gunface

5:02

06

You Don’t Have to Mean It

3:43

07

Out of Control

4:43

08

Saint of Me

5:15

09

Might as Well Get Juiced

5:23

10

Always Suffering

4:44

11

Too Tight

3:32

12

Thief in the Night

5:16

13

How Can I Stop

6:54

Moments Worth Waiting For

02Anybody Seen My Baby?The integration of a modern, sampled rhythm track on 'Anybody Seen My Baby?' marks the band's first official use of digital sampling.

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