The album Charli XCX made for the forthcoming Emerald Fennell-directed Wuthering Heights film adaptation is sounding pretty great so far. We've already heard the John Cale collab "House" and "Chains Of Love," which we named as one of that week's best tracks. Today she's released another single "Wall Of Sound." It's a brooding ballad that falls in line with her hits "Party 4 U" and "Track 10."
"Wall Of Sound" is no Phil Spector homage. It opens with languid orchestral strings and Charli's naked vocals: "Unbelievable tension/ Wall of sound/ No real reason and I can't escape it." The vocals land somewhere between pouty and shattering vulnerability. The strings lurch forward and recede like breaking waves. She sounds like a woman standing on a cliff's edge, basking in powers infinitely larger than her. It sounds like a hopeless romantic anthem. Perfect for someone that loves to fall in love again and again.
Listen below.
Wuthering Heights opens in theaters 2/13. The soundtrack album comes out the same day on Atlantic.
