Photo by Henry Redcliffe

Heathcliff, it’s me, Charli, and John Cale, too. It’s only fitting that as BRAT summer will live on for eternity from here on out that the pop artist extraordinaire is giving a twist of fate in everlasting life to an English lit classic, as she’s behind the helm of contributing original music to director Emerald Fennell’s salacious cinematic adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. This isn’t your traditional high school class’ interpretation of the class war and vengeance noir written centuries ago nor is it sonically in the vein of the the violent apple green energy which Charli XCX solidified her rightful place in the culture with a year ago.

Though she does choose violence from a completely opposite lens. This is her opportunity to flex her vision on the avant garde, with the Velvet Underground co-founder and composer’s brutalist, poetic spoken word introing an unsettling the scene ominously before the listen shifts into a gothic decomposition of electronic haunts. “I think I’m gonna die in this house,” their voices as the tortured entwine on repeat before being seized in a distortion surge to scream with the agony. “In every room, I hear silence,” Cale speaks as the noise empties. Still, the disquiet is deafening…

Directed by: Mitch Ryan

Charli XCX’s Wuthering Heights will be released February 13th on Atlantic Records.