Chains of Love Lyrics – Charli xcx | from “Wuthering Heights”

Charli XCX dives headfirst into the wild winds of obsession on Wuthering Heights, her sixth album that’s equal parts Brontë fever and clubland haze, out February 13, 2026, through Atlantic Records. Chains of Love, track five, grips like a fever you can’t shake, all thorns and blue-faced longing that makes you ache for the storm.

Charli’s got a real talent for twisting pop into something jagged, and this one feels like her channeling that Cathy-Heathcliff pull straight into the gut. She wrote it during a rainy stretch in the English countryside last spring, pulling from the novel’s raw edges to craft a sound that’s gothic electronica at heart: swirling synths that mimic howling gales, her voice cracking over sparse beats that build to a shattering drop.

The themes hit hard on love as a trap, that cruel bind where you’d rather burn than break free, scars and all. It’s got echoes of her Crash era drama but darker, more literary, with production from A.G. Cook layering in those eerie field recordings of wind and waves. She shared a voice memo snippet on her TikTok last month, and it already had fans murmuring about how it flips her party-girl mask for something haunted and real.

Wuthering Heights isn’t just a nod to the book. It’s a 12-track descent into love’s ruins, kicking off with a stormy opener called Moor Ghost and weaving through feverish cuts like Earnshaw’s Shadow midway, where she teams with Caroline Polachek for a duet that chills. The concept orbits isolation and desire’s double blade, blending hyperpop glitches with folk-tinged ballads that feel like lost diary entries. Track five sits right in the unraveling core, bridging the frenzy to quieter collapses like the piano-driven closer, Heights Fall. The full tracklist teases that moody sprawl, all under 45 minutes but dense enough to loop for days.