Charli’s eighth album, Music, Fashion, Film, was released on Friday, to largely positive reviews.<\/p>\n
Built around chopped-up guitar samples and acid-burned melodies, it finds the star dissecting her relationship to art and fame after Brat transformed her from cult favourite to mainstream star.<\/p>\n
The New York Times called it, external<\/a> “proudly prickly [and] satisfyingly scuzzy”, while DIY magazine described the 29-minute record, external<\/a> as a “candid, introspective triumph”.<\/p>\n On Monday, the Official Charts Company said the album was on course to top this week’s album chart, fending off competition from Snow Patrol, Shania Twain and The Strokes.<\/p>\n If its sales hold up, it would become Charli’s fourth UK number one overall, and her second this year, after the soundtrack to Wuthering Heights topped the chart in February.<\/p>\n Over the weekend, the singer released three “b-sides” to iTunes, as part of a deluxe edition of the album.<\/p>\n The star had previously told fans they were “never gonna go on streaming”, but said she had “begrudgingly” changed her mind after fans clamoured to hear them.<\/p>\n “I made b-sides for each of the songs released ahead of Music, Fashion, Film because it felt natural to pair each songs with a fitting counterpart \u2013 something that’s adjacent to the album but not entirely part of it,” she wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n “Traditionally, b sides often become fan favourites\u2026 and I guess in the case of some of the b sides for this album, that has proven to be true. <\/p>\n “I felt adamant I wouldn’t put them on streaming because it sort of felt counter intuitive to the whole ethos of those songs, but I know you all really wanted them so I’ve begrudgingly put them on iTunes lol.”<\/p>\n Fans will get to hear the new material live when Charli headlines the Reading & Leeds festival next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charli’s eighth album, Music, Fashion, Film, was released on Friday, to largely positive reviews. Built around chopped-up guitar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}