Charli xcx's New Album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ Is Dropping This July
The follow-up to ‘brat’ with a cover featuring Martin Scorsese, Marc Jacobs, and John Cale — shot by Aidan Zamiri.
Summary
- Charli xcx has announced Music, Fashion, Film, her seventh studio album, releasing July 24 with 11 tracks across exactly 30 minutes and 5 seconds
- The album cover was shot by Aidan Zamiri and features Martin Scorsese, Marc Jacobs, and John Cale of the Velvet Underground
- Confirmed tracks include previously released singles “SS26” and “Rock Music,” with the remaining nine titles yet to be announced
Charli xcx has announced Music, Fashion, Film, her seventh studio album, arriving July 24. The record runs 11 tracks and exactly 30 minutes and 5 seconds, with cover art shot by Aidan Zamiri featuring three figures across the album’s titular disciplines: filmmaker Martin Scorsese, designer Marc Jacobs, and musician John Cale of the Velvet Underground.
The formal parameters are deliberate and worth sitting with. Thirty minutes and five seconds across 11 tracks puts the average song length just under three minutes, a constraint that signals intent. In an era where album runtimes have ballooned under streaming economics, a record this compressed is a statement of edit as much as composition. Two of the 11 tracks are already out: “SS26,” which supplies the album its title through the lyric “Nothing’s gonna save us, not music, fashion, or film,” and “Rock Music,” both featuring prominent guitar. The remaining nine are unannounced.
The cover’s three subjects are as carefully constructed as the runtime. Zamiri, who directed both the “Rock Music” video and The Moment, the A24 mockumentary Charli conceived, produced, and stars in, shot Scorsese, Jacobs, and Cale together in a single image. Each represents one of the album’s three named disciplines at their highest level of cultural authority. Scorsese is cinema’s most referenced living director. Jacobs is American fashion’s most consistently influential designer across four decades. Cale is a founding member of the Velvet Underground and one of the most significant figures in the history of avant-garde music. Placing all three on the cover of a pop album is an act of aspiration as much as curation.
The album arrives as the seventh in Charli’s studio discography and the first since brat made her a cultural phenomenon in 2024. It follows the Wuthering Heights soundtrack she scored for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, released earlier in 2026. Charli’s crossover into film has been a defining feature of her year — in addition to The Moment, she has appeared in Faces of Death and Erupcja, with I Want Your Sex opening July 31, one week after the album drops. Music, Fashion, Film lands at the intersection of all of it.
Music, Fashion, Film releases July 24.
