Charli XCX has revealed that she will be dropping her 7th studio album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ this summer on the 24th of July. The 11 track LP will include previously released singles ‘Rock Music’ and ‘SS26’ which built anticipation for a potential new style of music. The album cover displays a black and white photograph featuring innovators John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese. The artwork, shot by Aidan Zamiri, proves appropriate considering her recent collaboration with Cale on the song ‘House’ in her soundtrack ‘Wuthering Heights’.
Although the titles of her other tracks haven’t been revealed yet, Charli hinted toward the album’s title name only a few weeks ago. On the 21st of May she dropped ‘SS26’ and in the lyrics sang “We’re walking on a runway that goes straight to Hell/ Nothing’s gonna save us, not music, fashion, or film/ Spring, Summer ’26.”
After an interview with British vogue, there was much discourse about Charli potentially releasing a rock album, experimenting with a new genre. This came from the interviewer quoting lyrics from her then unreleased song “Rock Music” that sung “I think the dance floor is dead/ So now we’re making rock music.” Charli responded to the conversations online by posting a snippet of “Rock Music” on her Instagram with the caption: “a video of me making a song called “rock music” that is not actually rock music which is funny because I never said I was making a rock album. Love you xx.”
Charli denied these claims but explained in the interview that her new album “is commenting on how I interact with the joint main love of my life outside of George and what would happen if that was taken from me. How I would have no purpose, and how for good or bad, art does provide me with purpose in my life.” Here she discusses navigating the relationship between her husband and her music. Her husband George Daniel, member of The 1975, also commented “what’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on that could be.” Evidently, no assumptions can be made about what direction Charli is taking with her new album, and while it might not be a rock album, we can trust that Charli will deliver something original and fresh.
Charli has a series of festival performances lined up for the next few months where fans can anticipate hearing her new material. She will be attending the following:
Jul 31- Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL
Aug 7- Outside Lands, San Francisco, CA
Aug 28- Reading Festival, Reading, UK
Aug 29- Leeds Festival, Leeds, UK
Oct 2-11- Austin City Limits Music Festival, Austin, TX
The new album is available as a vinyl, film variant, cassette, and cd which can be preordered now on her website. Alternatively, you can pre-save the album on Spotify and other streaming devices.
