"When Charli xcx says her first new material in more than a year is something entirely new, entirely opposite to the sound she pursued on the era-defining Brat, she isn't joking. Taken from the soundtrack to director Emerald Fennell's forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the darkly gothic House bears almost no relation in sound or mood to the contents of Brat: it was, she says, inspired by John Cale's description of the sound of his old mob the Velvet Underground as elegant and brutal."
"Always skilled and generous at collaboration, here Charli xcx cedes two-thirds of the track's vocal to Cale. He delivers a monologue oblique and initially conversational, it turns increasingly ominous in a voice that's rich, sonorous and, to a certain kind of music fan at least, immediate recognisable. Weathered by time at age 83, it's still audibly the same voice that recounted Lou Reed's grisly short story The Gift on White Light/White Heat 57 years ago."
Charli XCX's new track 'House' is a darkly gothic piece taken from Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights soundtrack and diverges sharply from the Brat era sound. John Cale supplies two-thirds of the vocals as an increasingly ominous monologue delivered in a rich, sonorous voice still recognisable after decades. The music features droning strings, shards of jagged feedback-like noise and heavy distortion, especially in the final minute, evoking Cale's Velvet Underground experiments with unsettling noise. Charli XCX unleashes agonised howls at the song's conclusion, and the belated beat suggests Nine Inch Nails influence.
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