Charli XCX Announces Her Eighth Studio Release Will Be A Rock Album

Charli XCX revealed she's creating a rock album for her eighth studio project. "I think the dance floor is dead, so now we're making rock music," she told Vogue, moving away from her dance-forward 2024 hit "Brat." The still unfinished album features heavily processed guitars, queasy feedback, and "scuffed" melodies with rough demo-like vocals replacing her signature auto-tuned style. Thematically, she explores her relationship with art, calling it the "joint main love of my life" alongside husband George Daniel of The 1975. Songs address marriage, fame's temporary nature, and reinvention's artificiality. Charli wrote and produced with collaborators A.G. Cook and Finn Keane, recording portions secretly in Paris during Fashion Week. The album remains incomplete due to her busy schedule, including festival headlining slots at Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, and Reading & Leeds.