Charli xcx has shared the haunting monitor Chains of Love from the Wuthering Heights movie.
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Days after sharing Home, a gothic collaboration with John Cale of The Velvet Underground, the Apple singer is again with one other style of the upcoming soundtrack LP. This time, it is a becoming ballad that gives a becoming soundtrack for the brand new trailer for the Emerald Fennell flick.
The erotic movie stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi and is predicted to premiere in 2026.
Home – co-written with Finn Keane – contains a spoken-word contribution from Cale.
Charli started writing music for the movie after being approached by Fennell in late 2024. She described the challenge as a inventive departure from her earlier album, Brat, and stated the brand new materials displays the emotional depth and bleak environment of the supply materials.
Along with her music, Charli is increasing her work in movie. She’s going to star in A24’s The Second, primarily based on her authentic idea and directed by Aidan Zamiri. The challenge is the primary co-production from her new enterprise, studio365.
Charli can also be set to look in a number of upcoming movies, together with Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Loss of life remake, Greg Araki’s I Need Your Intercourse, Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist, Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights Of Hero, Romain Gavras’ Sacrifice, and Pete Ohs’ Erupcja.
In a prolonged assertion relating to the challenge, she stated: “I acquired a name from Emerald Fennell final Christmas asking whether or not I might contemplate engaged on a music for her adaptation of Wuthering Heights. I learn the script and instantly felt impressed so Finn Keane and I started engaged on not only one however many songs that we felt related to the world she was creating. After being so within the depths of my earlier album, I used to be excited to flee into one thing fully new, fully reverse. Once I consider Wuthering Heights, I consider many issues. I consider ardour and ache. I consider England. I consider the Moors, I consider the mud and the chilly. I consider willpower and grit.”
On being an enormous fan of The Velvet Underground, she continued: “Just a few years in the past, I watched Todd Haynes’ documentary about The Velvet Underground. As lots of you recognize I’m an enormous fan of the band and was actually taken by the documentary. One factor that caught with me was how John Cale described a key sonic requirement of The Velvet Underground. That any music needed to be each “elegant and brutal”. I acquired actually caught on that phrase. I write it down on my notes app and would pull it up on occasion and take into consideration what he meant.
“When engaged on music for this movie, “elegant and brutal” was a phrase I stored coming again to. In the future, while on tour in Austin, Finn and I went to the studio and wrote the bones for a music that might ultimately grow to be Home. When the summer season ended, I used to be nonetheless ruminating on John’s phrases. So I made a decision to achieve out to him to get his opinion on the songs that his phrase had so deeply impressed, but in addition to see whether or not he may need to collaborate on any.”
Charli was diminished to tears listening to Cale’s contribution.
She added: “We acquired related, we spoke on the telephone and wow… that voice, so elegant, so brutal. I despatched him some songs and we began speaking particularly about Home. We spoke in regards to the concept of a poem. He recorded one thing and despatched it to me. One thing that solely John may do. And it was… nicely, it made my cry.
“I really feel so fortunate to have been capable of work with John on this music. I’ve been so excited to share it with you all, sitting quietly in anticipation.
“Love you all, let’s fall in love repeatedly.”
The Wuthering Heights soundtrack album will likely be launched on February 13, 2026.
