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Charli XCX to Release New Album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ on July 24

Charli XCX's forthcoming album, "Music, Fashion, Film," due July 24, will feature an album cover depicting Martin Scorsese, Marc Jacobs, and John Cale of The Velvet Underground.

Rolling Stone·Jun 1, 2026·via Rolling Stone

Charli XCX to Release New Album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ on July 24

Dancefloor is Dead

Charli XCX Sets New Album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ for July 24 Release

The album cover features a photo of Martin Scorsese, Marc Jacobs, and the Velvet Underground's John Cale

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June 1, 2026

“I never said I was making a rock album,” Charli XCX posted on Instagram in May, just before releasing her single “Rock Music” — well, on July 24, we’ll find out just what kind of album she actually made.

The cover of Music, Fashion, Film features a new photo of three giants in each of those fields: the Velvet Underground ‘sJohn Cale (who worked with Charli on the Wuthering Heights track “House”), designer Marc Jacobs , and Martin Scorsese . Aidan Zamiri, who also shot the “Rock Music” music video, took the photo.

A full track list hasn’t been announced, but her album will include the two songs she’s released so far: “Rock Music” and “SS26,” both of which include prominent guitar. “I think the dancefloor is dead, so now we’re making rock music,” she sings on the former song. But she’s suggested that lyric shouldn’t be taken literally, writing on Instagram, “I’m not gonna explain where I was coming from with ‘Rock Music,’ but all i know is that things can be funny, earnest, sincere, and joyful all at the same time and that’s what i feel about a lot of the things i make.”

The album takes its title from a lyric in the wry, wistful “SS26”: “When the world is gonna end, no hope for any of it,” she sings. “Yeah, we’re walking on a runway that goes straight to hell/ Nothing’s gonna save us, not music, fashion, or film.”