Charli XCX Announces New Album with Cover Art Featuring John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese

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Charli XCX Announces New Album with Cover Art Featuring John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese

Music, Fashion, Film Due Out July 24 via Atlantic

Jun 01, 2026 By Mark Redfern Photography by Aidan Zamiri

English popstar Charli XCX has announced a new album, Music, Fashion, Film, and its cover artwork fittingly features icons from each field: Welsh musician John Cale, fashion designer Marc Jacobs, and legendary film director Martin Scorsese. Music, Fashion, Film is due out July 24 via Atlantic.

Charli XCX has recently shared two singles expected to be on the album, the divisive “Rock Music” and “SS26,” as well as two B-sides, “I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night” and “Playboy Bunny.” “SS26” was one of our Songs of the Week.

Aidan Zamiri shot the album cover.

Music, Fashion, Film is her second album of 2026 and follows her soundtrack to Wuthering Heights, the latest adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel, directed by Emerald Fennell (Saltburn, Promising Young Woman) and starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. The film and soundtrack came out in February. Cale (a former Velvet Underground member) dueted with Charli on the Wuthering Heights track “House,” which was #1 on our Songs of the Week list.

Read our review of Wuthering Heights.

Charli XCX released her biggest album yet, Brat, in 2024.

Read our 2013 cover story interview with Charli XCX.

Read our 2023 interview with John Cale.