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Charli XCX crashes in with new album announcement
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 5 November 2021
Charli XCX has announced that she will release her fifth studio album, ‘Crash’, on 18 Mar. She’s also put out new single ‘New Shapes’ and scheduled UK tour dates in May next year.
“I, Charli XCX”, she says, “am announcing my fifth studio album, ‘Crash’, out on 18 Mar. I am also releasing one of the most exquisite tracks from the album alongside the tour dates. Although, honestly, all the tracks are totally divine”.
Yeah, I just said most of that already. Let’s hear something about this new single from Charli herself though, eh? That track, she adds, “features my demonically talented friends Caroline Polachek and Christine And The Queens” and “I summoned up Deaton Chris Anthony and Linus Wiklund from the depths of hell to produce it”.
So, that’s quite a team. The rest of the album is going to have to be pretty impressive or she might be accused of peaking too soon. I’m sure it’ll be great. Actually, there are a whole load more guests on the full record. So many, that it’s sort of inevitable that you’d end up with both Caroline Polachek and Christine And The Queens on one track.
“I was able to possess and persuade an incredible group of producers and collaborators to contribute to ‘Crash’ by using my femme fatale powers and a multitude of dark spells and curses”, says XCX. “Some [more] of these include AG Cook, George Daniel, Lotus IV, Oscar Holter, Digital Farm Animals, Rina Sawayama, Ian Kirkpatrik, Jason Evigan, Justin Raisen, Ariel Rechtshaid, Ilya, Oneohtrix Point Never, Jon Shave and Mike Wise. They will all remain locked in my basement forever”.
There’s also the matter of these tour dates, tickets for which will got on sale on 10 Nov. “If you don’t stream ‘New Shapes’ or purchase tickets to the tour you will most definitely burn in hell”, she says. Just so you know.
Here are the UK and Ireland dates:
13 May: Dublin, Olympia Theatre
15 May: Glasgow, Academy
17 May: Manchester, Victoria Warehouse
18 May: Birmingham, Academy
19 May: London, Alexandra Palace
21 May: Norwich, UEA
22 May: Sheffield, Academy
23 May: Nottingham, Rock City
