Goodbye, Brat summer. Hello, Charli xcx‘s rock era.
In an interview with British Vogue published Thursday (April 16), the pop star made a big reveal about her eighth studio album, which she’s currently hard at work on: It’ll be a rock record. That means lots of electric guitar — an instrument that was previously alien to her catalog of electronic pop tracks — and way, way less thumping club bangers such as the hits on her 2024 breakthrough album, Brat.
“For me, it’s fun to flip the form,” Charli said. “We know there’s gonna be people who are bothered by it, but that’s fine.”
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