Keith Richards revealed this week on his official YouTube channel that he and Mick Jagger have just completed about a dozen songs for the Rolling Stones‘ upcoming studio set. When answering the question posed to his ongoing “Ask Keith” series, Richards spoke about how the Jagger/Richards team ramps up and operates: “The secret is that we neither of us know what we’re gonna do until we put ourselves together, and then just see what happens. It’s one of those things with the Stones collectively is a, sort of, chemical thing. I can walk in and say, ‘I hope Mick’s got a song, because I haven’t got a (laughs) thing‘ — and probably vice versa at times, y’know? But, the fact is when we get together, we come up with something else anyway. So, there’s a great week last week. We just went in, I don’t know, we did about 10, 12 different things that didn’t exist until that moment. And that’s a great feeling, y’know, ’cause it’s a sort of (a) creative thing, y’know?”

The Stones’ last all original studio album A Bigger Bang, was released on September 5th, 2005. The set, which was the band’s first studio set since 1997’s Bridges To Babylon, topped out at Number Three in the U.S., and has sold over 2.4 million units to date.