Carly Rae Jepsen has returned with a new song, “On Wires,” out now via Interscope Records. It is the first single from her forthcoming double album, Day and Night. Stream it below.
Jepsen wrote “On Wires” with frequent collaborators Kyle Shearer, who also produced the track, and Nate Cyphert. The song opens with a sprightly piano flourish, and only moments pass before the complexity and quality of production become apparent. The singer’s vocals then enter center stage, as the song swells into layered live instrumentation under panoramic electronic production.
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The lyrics find Jepsen open and wanting. She sings, “I want to be more than friends for the week/ I want to be more than friends the week/ and if you want and if you like I’ll make you read my mind/ I want you.” Her declaration soars until it nearly dissolves into an echo before she lands a pointed question about where any of it goes next. Set against an almost marching beat, the song plays it both ways, playful and powerful, drenched in desire and sung with force. The organic warmth makes it a fitting preview of the album’s Day half.
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The single serves as the opening taste of Day and Night, which Jepsen announced earlier this week for a September 18th release. The 24-track double album is split into two 12-song halves built around opposing moods. The Day side is organic and raw, leaning on live instrumentation and a streak of ’70s psychedelic pop, while the Night side turns exploratory and intense, sliding into a sleek world of synth-driven dance pop. Across the full cycle, Jepsen chases a blurred, dreamlike sense of time in which mornings bleed into nights and back again. “On Wires” sits comfortably on the day side.
She made the record with a tight circle of longtime collaborators, including Tavish Crowe, Kyle Shearer, Nate Cyphert, and Cole M.G.N. It is her eighth studio album and her first full-length since the companion records The Loneliest Time and The Loveliest Time, released in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Jepsen teased the new era for weeks beforehand, posting cryptic postcard images tagged with locations, times, and stray lines of lyrics, and streaming a pair of instrumentals on her website that hinted at the album’s day and night halves.
Jepsen will launch the album with a headlining set at New York City’s All Things Go Festival on September 27th, her first live performance of 2026.