Brat summer 2.0? Charli XCX announces new album with help from Martin Scorsese

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Another Brat summer is upon us.Charli XCX announced Monday that her new album, “Music, Fashion, Film,” drops July 24, and it already looks iconic.That’s because the cover art, which Charli shared on Instagram, features three icons within their fields.

The Velvet Underground’s John Cale represents music, Marc Jacobs stands for fashion and beloved director Martin Scorsese symbolizes film.“My new album Music, Fashion, Film is out july 24th,” Charli wrote on Instagram.“11 songs, 30 minutes, 5 seconds.

available to pre order now, love you xx.”The “Brat” pop star re-teams with her “360” and “Guess” music video director for a satire about struggling to ditch her sickly green branding.She released the first two singles, “Rock Music” and “SS26,” in May.The latter, a shorthand for the fashion industry’s current “Spring, Summer ‘26” season, has an accompanying video that features the artist strutting down an X-shaped runway, singing, “We’re walking on a runway that goes straight to hell / Nothing’s gonna save us, not music, fashion or film.”“Rock Music,” the album’s first single, was met with mixed reactions from critics and fans.

The song telegraphs Charli’s genre switch from electronic pop to the titular rock music, announcing, “I think the dance floor is dead” over heavily distorted guitar.“If I’d made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad,” Charli told British Vogue in April.“What’s interesting for me is to bend the possibilities of what my perspective on [rock music] could be.” She later clarified on Instagram, “I never said i was making a rock album.” Music Charli XCX returns to the desert and brings Lorde, Billie Eilish and Troye Sivan with her.“Music, Fashion, Film” is not the artist’s first album in 2026.

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