Charli XCX - Wuthering Heights [Green & Black]

Charli XCX swaps the strobe lights of Brat for windswept moors on Wuthering Heights, her album of songs for Emerald Fennell's 2026 film, pressed on green and black vinyl.

Writing for a period romance might look like a left turn for pop's most restless provocateur, but the match makes sense. Emily Brontë's novel runs on obsession, bad weather and worse decisions, and Charli has always been at her best writing about wanting something far too much. Arriving the same day the film opened in cinemas, it plays as a full Charli album rather than a set of background cues, and it is easily her most gothic record.

House opens proceedings with John Cale, the Velvet Underground co-founder, lending the set an older, stranger gravity. Chains of Love and Wall of Sound carry the romance into brooding, dramatic territory, while Eyes of the World pairs Charli with Sky Ferreira. Finn Keane, Nathan Klein, Justin Raisen and Lewis Pesacov share production duties, giving the songs a darker, more cinematic frame than her dancefloor work.

Twelve songs in roughly 35 minutes keep it lean and feverish rather than stately.

For fans who followed Charli from the warehouse rave to the cinema, this is the same sharp songwriter wrapped in a heavier coat, and the green and black pressing suits its storm clouds.