Charli XCX is still relevant for at least two reasons. On the one hand, there are 15 days left until the ‘Wuthering Heights’ soundtrack is released. It is signed by herself along with Finn Keane, and has collaborations as succulent as that of John Cale.
After this soundtrack of ‘Wuthering Heights’ was presented – so you have to look for it on streaming platforms – with the song ‘House’, two more songs have been released. ‘Wall of Sound’ is a tremendous ballad spiced with terrifying strings, and ‘Chains of Love’ is a more conventional “power ballad”, halfway between eighties synth-pop and R&B.
On the other hand, these days Charli XCX is making the news because her mockumentary ‘The Moment’ is premiering at Sundance, which will also reach theaters in some countries. It was already announced last year that this 103-minute film talks about the preparation of the ‘BRAT’ tour with a fictional part, and now the soundtrack is being released.
That other soundtrack for ‘The Moment’ is not by Charli XCX but by her colleague AG Cook. This Friday, January 30, the 10-track album will be published, but we already know 3 of them. ‘Dread’, the last in the sequence, is partly built on the legendary ‘I Love It’ that Charli sang with Icona Pop.
And in ‘Residue’, the first of the sequence, which has just been released, what we hear are 3 minutes of crazy acid house that turns into techno. Charli In the absence of seeing the film, a possible metaphor for the ‘BRAT’ furor or the identity crisis that a success of this magnitude can entail.
With 4.5 million copies sold according to Mediatraffic estimates, ‘BRAT’ is one of the most successful albums worldwide in recent times.
