Charli xcx – Wuthering Heights – Galaxy Green and Black Vinyl Record

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Charli xcx – Wuthering Heights – Galaxy Green and Black Vinyl Record

Charli xcx wrote Wuthering Heights as a full-length musical companion to Emerald Fennell’s 2026 film, turning the atmosphere of Emily Brontë’s novel into twelve original songs rather than a conventional collection of incidental cues. The project arrived after the bright, confrontational club language of Brat, yet it does not simply repeat that album’s vocabulary. Here the emotional world is stormier and more enclosed: desire becomes obsession, romance carries a threat, and the production repeatedly places beautiful melodies against sounds that feel unstable or severe. The album works independently, but its recurring images of houses, walls, altars, eyes, and memory keep it tied to the story’s haunted landscape.

“House,” featuring John Cale, announces that change in scale immediately. Cale’s spoken presence gives the opening a forbidding weight before distorted textures, strings, and Charli’s processed voice press elegance and abrasion together. “Wall of Sound” keeps the pressure high, while “Dying for You” and “Always Everywhere” reveal the more openly melodic side of the record. Those songs still carry the sharp contours associated with Charli’s pop writing, but the arrangements are less interested in release than in suspense. Hooks arrive inside a larger dramatic frame, as if each chorus were being pulled back toward the moors.

The middle of the album traces several different shades of fixation. “Chains of Love” is direct and emotionally immediate, while “Out of Myself” and “Open Up” turn inward, examining the loss of control that can accompany intimacy. “Seeing Things” and “Altars” deepen the record’s ritualistic atmosphere without making it monochrome; the music can be delicate, theatrical, or suddenly forceful from one passage to the next. Finn Keane, a longtime Charli collaborator, is central to the album’s production language, helping connect electronic detail with string arrangements and a more cinematic sense of space.

“Eyes of the World,” featuring Sky Ferreira, brings another distinctive voice into the album’s late stretch. The pairing suits a record concerned with scrutiny, longing, and damaged glamour, while “My Reminder” and “Funny Mouth” close the sequence on notes that feel personal rather than neatly resolved. The concise running order is important: Wuthering Heights does not over-explain its themes or dilute its strongest contrasts. It moves like a compact song cycle, returning to emotional ideas from different angles and leaving tension in the air after the final track.

This exact Atlantic Records edition is pressed on galaxy green-and-black colored vinyl, a visual treatment that matches the album’s mixture of romance and darkness. It also includes a lyric booklet enclosed with the record, making the words and narrative connections easier to follow away from the film. UPC 075678590818 identifies this limited physical configuration and separates it from alternate vinyl colors, standard editions, and digital versions. For listeners following Charli xcx beyond Brat, it documents a deliberate pivot toward gothic pop, soundtrack writing, and a more dramatic use of arrangement.

The physical design continues the album’s literary and cinematic framing. A single jacket and printed inner sleeve hold the record, whose decorative doily-style center label echoes the period imagery around the film. The 5⅜-by-8½-inch lyric booklet is enclosed in its own envelope, encouraging the songs to be read as a connected text rather than treated only as isolated singles. These details make the pressing especially useful for following the words, guest appearances, and recurring motifs across the twelve-track sequence.

Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic

Track Listing

1. House (featuring John Cale)
2. Wall of Sound
3. Dying for You
4. Always Everywhere
5. Chains of Love
6. Out of Myself
7. Open Up
8. Seeing Things
9. Altars
10. Eyes of the World (featuring Sky Ferreira)
11. My Reminder
12. Funny Mouth