News Summary

• On her new album, Music, Fashion, Film, the musician embraces rock.
• The last time a Charli XCX album appeared, her sixth studio album, by the evocative title of Brat, was ascendant.
• The album appears in the second year of another interminable Trump presidency, full of the nothing-signifying sound and fury that his return to office has wrought.
• Its title hints at something else: Charli’s renewed focus on her creative ventures outside of music.