Carly Rae Jepsen Is Back With a 24-Track Double Album and Fans Are Already Losing It

Pop’s favorite architect of feelings and floor-fillers is back.

Carly Rae Jepsen announced Day and Night, a sprawling 24-track double album arriving Sept. 18 via Interscope Records. The project marks her first full-length release since The Loveliest Time and arrives with a concept built around contrast: 12 songs for daylight hours and 12 for after dark.

To kick off the era, Jepsen will release lead single “On Wires” on June 26.

The announcement arrives alongside news that Jepsen will make her first live appearance of 2026 with a headline set at New York City’s All Things Go Festival on Sept. 27, giving fans just over a week to live with the record before hearing it on stage. Two Sides, One Story

According to release materials, Day and Night was created as a complete experience rather than a collection of standalone tracks.

The album explores the feeling of losing track of time, those moments when late nights become early mornings and emotions blur together. That idea shaped both the sound and structure of the record.

Jepsen worked with longtime collaborators Tavish Crowe, Kyle Shearer, Nate Cyphert and Cole M.G.N. to build two distinct musical worlds.

Day leans into live instrumentation and pulls inspiration from ’70s-era psychedelic pop. Night shifts direction, embracing a synth-forward dance-pop sound with sharper edges and more intensity.

Together, the two halves move through themes of love, joy, anxiety, fear and escapism.

The release describes the project as an attempt to find poetry in everyday emotion and to embrace possibility rather than certainty. A Career Built on Reinvention

Few pop artists have built a catalog with the kind of devotion Jepsen inspires.

After breaking globally in 2012 with “Call Me Maybe,” Jepsen could have stayed in the lane of radio domination. Instead, she turned into one of pop’s most respected album artists, developing a reputation for making records that reward repeat listens and inspire fierce fan loyalty.

Her 2015 album E•MO•TION became a defining release of the decade for many listeners and critics alike, helping establish Jepsen as more than a singles artist. She continued expanding that world through E•MO•TION Side B, then evolved again with Dedicated and Dedicated Side B, balancing polished pop with increasingly personal songwriting.

By the time The Loneliest Time arrived in 2022, Jepsen had settled into a creative lane entirely her own, one where experimentation and accessibility comfortably coexist.

That freedom appears central to Day and Night.

“With nothing left to prove,” the release notes, Jepsen approaches the album with confidence and self-assurance, inviting listeners into the next phase of her evolution. The Countdown Begins

Jepsen fans won’t have to wait long to hear where this chapter begins.

“On Wires” arrives June 26, offering the first preview of what promises to be one of pop’s most ambitious releases of the year. Then, on Sept. 18, listeners will finally get both sides of the story.

Whether you’re a sunrise person, a midnight person or somewhere in between, Jepsen appears ready to soundtrack all of it.

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