Charli XCX turns the next era into Music, Fashion, Film

Charli XCX has never treated pop music as just a sound. It is also image, attitude, collaboration, fashion, internet language and cultural weather. Her newly announced album Music, Fashion, Film makes that worldview explicit right from the title. Due on 24 July via Atlantic, the record follows a year of intense momentum and arrives with a concept that seems to pull together the different rooms Charli has been moving through: clubs, runways, cinema, festival stages and the chaotic online space where all of those things now collide. The reported cover concept, involving major figures from music, fashion and film, underlines the point. Charli is not simply releasing songs into the marketplace. She is staging an era. For indie and alternative pop audiences, that matters because Charli’s best work has always blurred the boundary between mainstream pop machinery and underground energy. Music, Fashion, Film looks set to keep that tension alive.

Source: https://pitchfork.com/news/charli-xcx-announces-new-album-music-fashion-film