- 2025-11-14
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MUSIC
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Charli xcx Announces New Album “Wuthering Heights”, Shares New Song “Chains of Love”
British singer-songwriter Charli xcx has announced her upcoming album “Wuthering Heights” will be released on February 13, 2026.
She recoded the album for the upcoming film “Wuthering Heights”.
The film “Wuthering Heights” was directed by Emerald Fennell, starring Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, and Ewan Mitchell.
It was inspired by Emily Brontë's 1847 novel “Wuthering Heights”.
The film is scheduled to be released on February 13, 2026.
The album comprises 12 tracks, featuring a guest appearance from John Cale.
From the album, she unveiled a new song “Chains of Love” on November 13, 2025.
The song is the second single off, following “House” featuring John Cale, which was released on November 10, 2025.
It was written by Charlotte Aitchison, Finn Keane, and Justin Raisen. Produced by Finn Keane.- Charli xcx said of the album, “In early December 2024 I got a text from an unknown number that turned out to be Emerald Fennell. We had previously shared the same glam team and had met once at a party in a house by the Chateau Marmont but other than that our paths hadn't really crossed. The text felt out of the blue but obviously intriguing. I had heard through the grapevine that she was making an adaptation of Wuthering Heights and so when she sent me the script to read I devoured it instantly. I was in London at the time, it was freezing and miserable and getting dark at around 4pm, which felt fitting. I began to sink into this reimagined world of Wuthering Heights and I suddenly began to feel… inspired. I was immersing myself in a story that was not my own, a story that was steeped in history, a story that had existed since 1847 (tysm Emily Brontë). I was purely a voyeur and I was enjoying being one. The language of this world felt so opposite from the world I had been inhabiting for the past 2 and a half years. I began to feel a sense of freedom again.”
- She continued, “I called Emerald and asked her what she was hoping for from my read of the script. She coyly suggested 'A song?' and I suggested 'An album?' because why not? I wanted to dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar. Without a cigarette or a pair of sunglasses in sight, it was all totally other from the life I was currently living. I was fucking IN.”
She added, “When Emerald approached me with an open mind and a total willingness for me to explore I thought… ok I can do something cool here. I can write songs from a different perspective and I can think about these songs as purely serving the film they've been written for. For me that's a totally different approach and finding a new approach always feels like a lifeline to a new way of creating. This collection of songs is an album, and sure, my name's on the credits, but is it a Charli xcx album? I don't even know. Nor do I really care to find out. All I know is that it's a celebration of my freedom as an artist right now and that I feel passionate about what I've created and how it's been created.” - source : Apple Music
