Charli XCX has announced a new album, Crash, and a power-trio single with her “demonically talented” friends Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek. Listen to “New Shapes” below. Charli XCX has also lined up a giant slate of North American and European tour dates, which you can check out below. The album is out March 18, 2022.
Producers and collaborators on the record include Rina Sawayama, Oneohtrix Point Never, A. G. Cook, the 1975’s George Daniel, and Ariel Rechtshaid. In addition, Deaton Chris Anthony and Linus Wiklund produced “New Shapes.” Charli XCX “possessed and persuaded” the illustrious guest list using her “femme fatale powers and a multitude of dark spells and curses,” she noted in the press release. “They will all remain locked in my basement forever.”
“New Shapes” follows “Good Ones,” her September single, as well as the 2020 Christine and the Queens collaboration “Gone.” Charli XCX released How I’m Feeling Now the same year. In 2021, she’s hopped on tracks with Joel Corry and Jax Jones (“Out Out”), Elio (the “Charger” remix), the 1975 and No Rome (“Spinning”), and Bladee and Mechatok (“Drama” remix). She also launched a BBC Sounds podcast called Charli XCX’s Best Song Ever.
Of Crash, Charli XCX noted in a press release: “This is the fifth and final album in my record deal….”
Read Pitchfork’s 2019 Cover Story “Charli XCX Is the Pop Star of the Future.”
Charli XCX:
03-26 Oakland, CA - Fox Theatre
03-29 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
04-01 San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park
04-03 Los Angeles, CA - The Greek Theatre
04-06 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
04-08 Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater
04-09 Houston, TX - House of Blues Houston
04-10 Dallas, TX - House of Blues Dallas
04-12 New Orleans, LA - Orpheum Theater
04-13 Atlanta, GA - The Eastern
04-15 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
04-16 Norfolk, VA - The NorVa
04-18 Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore Philadelphia
04-20 Boston, MA - House of Blues Boston
04-22 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
04-23 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
04-25 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
04-26 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre
04-28 Saint Paul, MN - Palace Theatre
04-29 Chicago, IL - Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
05-13 Dublin, Ireland - Olympia Theatre
05-15 Glasgow, Scotland - O2 Academy
05-17 Manchester, England - Victoria Warehouse
05-18 Birmingham, England - O2 Academy
05-19 London, England - Alexandra Palace
05-21 Norwich, England - UEA
05-22 Sheffield, England - O2 Academy
05-23 Nottingham, England - Rock City
05-25 Paris, France - Trianon
05-27 Brussels, Belgium - La Madeleine
05-28 Utrecht, Netherlands - Ronda Hall
05-30 Berlin, Germany - Astra
05-31 Cologne, Germany - Carlswerk Victoria
06-02 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
06-04 Milan, Italy - Fabrique
06-07 Madrid, Spain - La Riviera
06-09 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
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