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- Summary: Charli xcx's latest full-length album has been described as both a companion and soundtrack album to "Wuthering Heights" directed by Emerald Fennell. It features guest appearances by John Cale and Sky Ferreira.
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- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Pop, Pop/Rock
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Feb 13, 2026Charli proves herself much more in tune with the terrible complexity of Brontë’s original vision than Fennell: there are no inverted commas around the emotion expressed on this record. A windswept, gothic triumph.
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Feb 13, 2026The songwriting is uniformly fantastic – she clearly doesn’t view pushing at the boundaries of what she does as any reason to abandon her pop smarts – and furthermore, it works as an album completely independent from the film it’s intended to accompany.
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Feb 13, 2026Wuthering Heights isn’t a soundtrack or a score. It’s a fully realized album, with great songs that add a whole new musical texture to her always-changing sensibility.
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Feb 18, 2026Wuthering Heights the album is an independent work of art. .... With a voiceover from Cale that sounds a bit like a corny narrative piped out in a theme park ride or immersive experience, the song ["House"] builds into a majestic, doomy dirge. But the rest of Wuthering Heights is a pop album, if a gothic one. ‘Dying For You’ and ‘My Reminder’ are immediate hits, while ‘Always Everywhere’ and ‘Chains of Love’ carry the swooping melodrama of a 1980s power ballad.
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Apr 10, 2026Wuthering Heights consists of just 12 songs, clocking in under 35 minutes. But songs like Dying for You, Chains of Love and Always Everywhere pack such a punch that their conciseness never feels like a curse.
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Feb 13, 2026At its peak, it really does sweep the listener away into a world where passion is all-powerful and all-consuming, for better and for worse, with Charli finding the capacity for epic drama within her talents for addictive pop. Like the movie that inspired it, there’s messiness here — and like the movie, the messiness feels like the point.
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Feb 17, 2026Perhaps it’s more accurate to think of this album as a creative exercise than an artistic statement. And creative exercise or not, Wuthering Heights still yields some beautiful moments.