Carly Rae Jepsen Announces Double Album Day and Night

Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen announced on Monday that she will release a new double album, "Day and Night," on September 18 via Interscope Records. The 24-track project is described as her most cohesive artistic statement to date, structured as two distinct halves: 12 songs for day and 12 songs for night.

The album's first single, "On Wires," is scheduled for release this Friday, June 26. Jepsen will also launch the album with a headlining performance at New York City's All Things Go Festival on Sunday, September 27, which will mark her first live performance of the year.

According to a statement about the album, "Day and Night captures a blurred, dreamlike sense of time where nights stretch into mornings and days dissolve into nights, creating a feeling of being suspended inside a moment." The two halves are designed with separate sonic identities. The "Day" section is characterized as organic and raw, featuring live instrumentation and 70s-inspired psychedelic pop. The "Night" section is described as exploratory and intense, shifting into a sleek, synth-driven world of dance pop. Thematically, the album explores a full range of emotion including joy, fear, love, anxiety, and...