Listen to Charli XCX’s haunting single ‘Wall Of Sound’

Charli XCX has released a haunting new single, ‘Wall Of Sound’. Listen below.

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The track is the latest to be shared from Charli’s new album, which she has written for the upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell. The album will arrive on Friday February 13, and is available to pre-order here.

So far, the record has been previewed by ‘House’, which saw the singer team up with The Velvet Underground’s John Cale to capture an eerie sound, and the gothic track ‘Chains Of Love’.

Now, Charli has released ‘Wall Of Sound’, a deeply cinematic, haunting track that opens with orchestral, horror-esque strings and Charli’s raw vocals.

“Unbelievable tension/ Wall of sound/ No real reason and I can’t escape it,” she sings over the spooky chorus of violins. Check it out below.

The new film adaptation of ​​Wuthering Heights is set for release next month (February 13), and stars Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff.

The new songs come after Charli recently said that she was “currently feeling more inspired by film than by music” after being left “stuck, empty and barren” after her breakthrough album ‘Brat‘.

“[By the end of ‘Brat’] I sort of felt like I was squeezing blood from a stone, trying to get every last drop of liquid life out of an idea I had already been sat with for years prior,” she shared. “I still love [Brat], don’t get me wrong but I was itching to move on and was simultaneously frustrated that I was so depleted that I couldn’t.”

In May, she hinted that she was expecting her next, non-Wuthering Heights album to go in a completely different direction than ‘Brat’, saying: “You can never really do the same thing twice and my next record will probably be a flop, which I’m down for to be honest.”

And in February, her producers A.G. Cook, Finn Keane and George Daniel – also her husband – said that the follow-up is shaping up to be “anti-Brat”, Keane saying: “Some of the conversations we’re having and music we’ve been playing around with the last couple of months have been completely the opposite.”

Recently, she revealed that she is “exploring a lot of stuff with strings” for the album.

In other news, Charli’s upcoming mockumentary The Moment is set to hit UK cinemas on February 20.

The movie arrives via A24 and is centred around the mammoth response to her 2024 ‘Brat’ album and subsequent tour. Directed by Aidan Zamiri, the film is made using a combination of real footage from the tour, interwoven with fictional backstage scenes.

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