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- Summary: Charli xcx's latest full-length album has been described as both a companion and soundtrack album to "Wuthering Heights" directed by Emerald Fennell. It features guest appearances by John Cale and Sky Ferreira.
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- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Pop, Pop/Rock
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- Feb 13, 2026Charli proves herself much more in tune with the terrible complexity of Brontë’s original vision than Fennell: there are no inverted commas around the emotion expressed on this record. A windswept, gothic triumph.
- Feb 18, 2026It “accompanies” the film. It’s also the best part of it; a correction: Brontë’s gothica as something that clings and stains. And Charli, thoughtfully and tastefully, suffusing that stain into her continued ascendancy.
- Feb 13, 2026Done and dusted in 35 minutes, it’s tempting to view ‘Wuthering Heights’ as a studio palette cleanser, a means for Charli xcx to fully divest herself from the ‘Brat’ era. Yet the music itself so much more rewarding than that definition allows – at times gorgeous, at others deliberately grotesque, it offers a series of dark gothic fantasies that inhabit a transformative realm.
- Feb 19, 2026A solid slab of new music from her – the perfect soundtrack for a winter of yearning and discontent.
- Feb 17, 2026The album sometimes feels as if Charli committed fully to her concept, but didn’t allow herself to branch out even further, reach higher, express – or even abandon – more. It is a symphony, but not quite an opus. Yet as it stands, this might actually be her most successful album.
- Feb 18, 2026Charli is one of the definitive pop artists of our time, but in soundtracking a classic story, she never fully transcends our moment.
- Feb 17, 2026Perhaps it’s more accurate to think of this album as a creative exercise than an artistic statement. And creative exercise or not, Wuthering Heights still yields some beautiful moments.
