Music, Fashion, Film drops on July 24
The Post-Brat Pivot
After a Grammy-winning, culture-dominating run with Brat in 2024, Charli XCX did the unexpected: she put down the hyperpop production and picked up a guitar. Music, Fashion, Film, out July 24 via Atlantic Records, is an 11-track album co-produced with A.G. Cook and Finn Keane (easyfun) that trades the neon-green dance-floor for something darker, more urgent, more alive. The title comes from a lyric in the single "SS26": nothing's gonna save us, not music, fashion, or film. She said it. Then she made it anyway.
Album release
July 24, 2026
Tour opens
September 11, Philadelphia
Album length
11 tracks, approx 30 minutes
Lead single UK peak
Rock Music, number 36
Charity commitment
$200,000 to Transgender Law Center
Support act
Underscores (all 12 arena dates)
The Singles So Far
Three singles have landed ahead of the July 24 release. Rock Music (May 8) is the loudest pivot of the three: hyperpop DNA rerouted through guitar noise, co-written with A.G. Cook and Finn Keane. Charli described it as funny, earnest, sincere, and joyful. SS26 (May 21) is darker. Shot in Paris runway settings with Carine Roitfeld and Anthony Vaccarello, its video makes fashion look apocalyptic. The third single, Wink Wink (June 26), arrived just weeks before the album window. The cover of the full album is a black-and-white photo of three icons: John Cale (music), Marc Jacobs (fashion), and Martin Scorsese (film).
The arena run is deliberately tighter than the Brat Tour. Twelve headline shows across North America, two-night stands at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and The Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Tickets include Angel Tickets at $20 a pair from August 2026, non-transferable, seat revealed at the box office on the day.
"If I had made another album that felt more dance-leaning, it would have felt really hard, really sad.
"Charli XCX on leaving the Brat sound
[icon:VINYL] Album extras include a Yorkshire Smoke vinyl in a die-cut dress sleeve with a newsprint poster, and a vinyl-exclusive B-side available only through her own store.
[icon:FILM] Beyond music: Charli contributed to the Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights soundtrack, starred in the mockumentary The Moment, and appeared in A24 film Mother Mary.
