Singer and songwriter Charli XCX has announced a birthday gift to herself yesterday (2nd August) by confirming the release date for her new single “Good Ones“.
She took to Twitter, posting an image of herself styled in 80’s hair and makeup: “my new song Good Ones arrives on September 2nd. get ready to surrender, happy birthday to me“. She added after: “the higher the hair.. the closer to hell“.

my new song Good Ones arrives on September 2nd. get ready to surrender pre save now. happy birthday to me https://t.co/vWV9CrELr5 pic.twitter.com/ItGTEcVw5d

— Charli (@charli_xcx) August 2, 2021

The single will be the first from Charli XCX upcoming fifth album, which will be the singer’s first solo material since last year’s “How I’m Feeling Now“.
The last album has been written and recorded during the pandemic and it’s an “anxiety-fuelled trip“. The album received great reviews with four stars from NME that called it: “a musical time capsule, evoking the confusion that so many of us are feeling at the moment. Brimming with the prickling anxiety and stress that’s become commonplace during the pandemic (…) it’s a glorious, experimental collection – and a reminder that within all of the current heartache and destruction, we’re never truly on our own“. The release clearly shows “that we’re all feeling the effects of lockdown and missing our loved ones“.  Check out the full mxdwn review of the album here.
Charlotte Emma Aitchison, aka Charli XCS, recently told Insider that she’s thinking about going back to the music that she started pre-lockdown: “I’m sort of beginning to think about that again. There are thoughts that I’m having, and a direction that I’m taking.”
Charli XCX new single “Good Ones” is out on 2nd September and can be pre-saved here.

Charli XCX will play at the Reading and Leeds Festival at the end of summer. Tickets are still available to purchase. She will also play at Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona in 2022 alongside Beck, Disclosure and Jorja Smith.