# Day and Night (Carly Rae Jepsen album)
**Day and Night** is a 24-track double album by the Canadian pop singer-songwriter [Carly Rae Jepsen](https://www.edgepedia.org/carly-rae-jepsen), released on September 18, 2026 through School Boy/[Interscope Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/interscope-records).[1](https://interscope.com/products/day-and-night-cd) It is split evenly between a "Day" side of organic, folk- and psychedelia-tinged pop and a "Night" side of synth-driven dance pop, and it was inspired by Jepsen's marriage to, and first child with, the producer Cole M.G.N.[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | September 18, 2026; School Boy/Interscope Records[3](https://www.allmusic.com/album/day-and-night-mw0004834138) |
| Format | 24-track double album, 12 "Day" songs and 12 "Night" songs[4](https://pitchfork.com/news/carly-rae-jepsens-new-album-is-a-24-track-double-lp/) |
| Announcement | Officially announced and made available for pre-order on June 22, 2026[5](https://carlyraejepsen.wiki.gg/wiki/Day_and_Night) |
| Songwriting | Over 140 songs written for the album between 2023 and 2025[5](https://carlyraejepsen.wiki.gg/wiki/Day_and_Night) |
| Executive producers | Carly Rae Jepsen, Tavish Crowe, and Kyle Shearer[6](https://www.carlyraemusic.com/credits/) |
| Critical reception | Pitchfork score 7.5; Chorus.Reviews average of 74.11/100 across nine professional reviews[7](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night/) • [8](https://chorus.reviews/index.php/albums/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night) |
| Expanded edition | *Day and Night (Continued)*, a 32-song edition, announced in October 2026[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022) |
## Background and recording
Jepsen's previous albums followed a pattern of companion releases: *Dedicated* (2019) was followed by *Dedicated Side B* (2020), and *The Loneliest Time* (2022) by *The Loveliest Time* (2023), with each pair drawn from the same large batch of written tracks.[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022) Apple Music notes that she whittled *E•MO•TION* down from over 200 tracks, and Pitchfork's review says she claimed she wrote 200 songs for one 12-track record, then another hundred for her next one.[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022) • [7](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night/)
**From companion pieces to one record.** Development of Day and Night began around July 2023, shortly after the release of *The Loveliest Time*, and Jepsen posted to Instagram in September 2023 that she was in the studio "dreaming up the next project."[5](https://carlyraejepsen.wiki.gg/wiki/Day_and_Night) She worked closely with the collaborators Tavish Crowe, Kyle Shearer, Nate Cyphert, and Cole M.G.N., with additional sessions involving Bullion and Mont Duamel.[5](https://carlyraejepsen.wiki.gg/wiki/Day_and_Night) Rather than holding songs back for a later B-sides collection, she decided to "go all in from the start," explaining in 2026: "with intention, at age 40, let's just do a double album."[5](https://carlyraejepsen.wiki.gg/wiki/Day_and_Night) More than 140 songs were written for the project, with her writing at the time understood to be inspired by indie music.[5](https://carlyraejepsen.wiki.gg/wiki/Day_and_Night)
The album is rooted in her personal life during the recording years. She met the musician and producer Cole M.G.N. at a songwriting session; in 2025 they married, and earlier in 2026 they welcomed their first child.[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022) Jepsen has said the album was made possible by what she called the "incredible, mind-altering, life-altering change" of those four years.[9](https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/music/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night-interview/) She told Vogue that some songs on *The Loveliest Time* had planted the seeds of the new world she wanted to play in: "Collage" feels quite day-ish and "Psychedelic Switch" is pretty night-ish.[10](https://www.vogue.com/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night-interview)
The album was officially announced on June 22, 2026, when it was made available for pre-order with a September 18 release date.[5](https://carlyraejepsen.wiki.gg/wiki/Day_and_Night)
## Concept and sound
The record is split between two moods. Jepsen told Apple Music: "I don't even know if I set out to make a double album, it just started to become what I was creating. She felt her tastes had split into two separate directions: one grounded in organic, live instrumentation, and another with a darker, nighttime quality built on synthesizers. Day and night became the obvious distinction."[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022)
**Day.** The Day side draws from 1960s folk and 1970s psychedelia for gently trippy love songs with organic textures and a tinge of melancholia.[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022) Press materials describe it as "organic and raw, with live instrumentation and hints of Seventies-inspired psychedelic pop."[11](https://2.zoppoz.workers.dev/https/www.metacritic.com/music/day-and-night/carly-rae-jepsen/) Jepsen herself described it as "more organic in nature, with more live instruments and a little hint of my roots in folk."[12](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night-review-3968867) Pitchfork noted quasi-experimental detours, including a few bars of understated bossa nova on Day's closing track and a sitar-like solo toward the end of "Soft."[7](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night/)
**Night.** A thick bass line and a touch of cowbell greet the listener at the start of the Night side, establishing the atmosphere for a run of tracks influenced by [French house](https://www.edgepedia.org/french-house), [Italo disco](https://www.edgepedia.org/italo-disco), and ABBA, sometimes simultaneously, as in "Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor."[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022) Press materials describe it as "exploratory and intense, shifting into a sleek, synth-driven world of dance pop."[11](https://2.zoppoz.workers.dev/https/www.metacritic.com/music/day-and-night/carly-rae-jepsen/)
**Emotional center.** Jepsen identified "After All," the album's opening track, as its emotional center and as a song that functioned for her as a manifestation. "I was writing this song before I was engaged, before we had the baby. It was just an idea," she said. "But then when we shot the video, I was all of those things. We'd locked it in. We were married. I was nine months pregnant when shooting this, and my husband was there dancing with me."[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022) Pitchfork read the lyrics as focused on Jepsen's core concerns of pining, lovesickness, and crushes, with heartache contained to a few tracks halfway through Day, such as "Wild Child," "Good Fine Alright," and "Something Tragic."[7](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night/)
## Track listing
All 24 tracks, per Interscope:[1](https://interscope.com/products/day-and-night-cd)
**Day (CD 1)**
1. After All
2. Habits of Creatures
3. Versailles
4. [On Wires](https://www.edgepedia.org/on-wires)
5. Blue Skies
6. Burning Heart
7. Wild Child
8. Good Fine Alright
9. Something Tragic
10. Soft
11. Lonely Side of the Bed
12. Just a Little Walk on the Moon
**Night (CD 2)**
1. Never Let a Good Thing Die
2. [Amalfi Coast](https://www.edgepedia.org/amalfi-coast)
3. Patience Power Passion
4. [Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor](https://www.edgepedia.org/dont-leave-me-on-the-dance-floor)
5. Motivation
6. You Don't Know How It Feels
7. Near or Far
8. Diver
9. Hold Me to the Light
10. That's Just Me
11. [No Labels](https://www.edgepedia.org/no-labels), I Love You
12. Super Sage
The Japanese edition adds two bonus tracks.[12](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night-review-3968867) An expanded edition, *Day and Night (Continued)*, was announced in October 2026 and lists 32 songs on Apple Music.[13](https://www.universal-music.co.jp/carly-rae-jepsen/news/) • [2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022)
## Singles
"On Wires" was the first offering from the album, described by Pitchfork as a pop-rockish track.[14](https://pitchfork.com/news/carly-rae-jepsen-on-wires-song-day-and-night/) The other pre-release singles were "Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor" and "After All."[15](https://los40.com/2026/08/21/carly-rae-jepsen-lanza-motivation-y-nos-ensena-a-salir-a-la-pista-de-baile-como-su-familia/) "Motivation," released August 21, 2026, followed those three previews as the fourth single and the second from the Night side; its electronic rhythm and lyrics celebrate Jepsen's family, and its video features her dancing alongside her niece Ivy.[15](https://los40.com/2026/08/21/carly-rae-jepsen-lanza-motivation-y-nos-ensena-a-salir-a-la-pista-de-baile-como-su-familia/) • [16](https://los40.com/2026/08/24/carly-rae-jepsen-reivindica-las-familias-intensas-y-algo-locas-en-motivation/)
## Critical reception
Pitchfork's Marissa Lorusso scored the album 7.5, calling it a sprawling double album that "celebrates full-time love and commitment with sweet, sunny tracks for Day and sleeker, dancier songs for Night." The review judged the sprawl a double-edged sword: production is usually layered and finely detailed, but most songs lack the razor-sharp hooks that usually make Jepsen's work indelible, and both halves sag in their second halves.[7](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night/) NME's Nick Levine called it "an album of two halves" with strong conceptual clarity, and heard her most alt-leaning pop yet on the Day side.[12](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night-review-3968867) AllMusic's Heather Phares wrote that at 24 songs long it "feels like a major statement even if the overall mood is mellow."[3](https://www.allmusic.com/album/day-and-night-mw0004834138)
**Aggregated scores.** Chorus.Reviews recorded a 74.11/100 average across nine professional reviews, crediting "both ambitious experimentation and occasional bloat"; reviewers singled out the Night disc's club-ready immediacy and the Day disc's intimate songwriting as the album's twin strengths.[8](https://chorus.reviews/index.php/albums/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night) A dissenting assessment in the same aggregation dismissed the album as "a dance mix for a forgettable cocktail party."[17](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/1882167-carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night.php)
## Position in Jepsen's catalog
Sources disagree on the album's ordinal in Jepsen's catalog: Apple Music presents it as her eighth album,[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022) [Universal Music Japan](https://www.edgepedia.org/universal-music-japan)'s product page describes it as her seventh,[18](https://www.universal-music.co.jp/carly-rae-jepsen/products/uics-1420/) and a LOS40 news item calls it her sixth studio album.[16](https://los40.com/2026/08/24/carly-rae-jepsen-reivindica-las-familias-intensas-y-algo-locas-en-motivation/) What the album does settle is her move from paired companion releases to a single simultaneous double album: earlier records culled from the same sessions had been split into a main album and a B-sides project released later, whereas [Day and Night](https://www.edgepedia.org/day-and-night) arrived complete, with the expanded *Continued* edition following a few weeks later.[2](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022)
## References
1. [Day and Night - CD, Interscope Records](https://interscope.com/products/day-and-night-cd)
2. [Day and Night - Album by Carly Rae Jepsen, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/day-and-night/6781767022)
3. [Carly Rae Jepsen: Day and Night Tracks & Reviews, AllMusic (review by Heather Phares)](https://www.allmusic.com/album/day-and-night-mw0004834138)
4. [Carly Rae Jepsen's New Album Is a 24-Track Double LP, Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/news/carly-rae-jepsens-new-album-is-a-24-track-double-lp/)
5. [Day and Night - Carly Rae Jepsen Wiki](https://carlyraejepsen.wiki.gg/wiki/Day_and_Night)
6. [DAY & NIGHT - Credits, Carly Rae Jepsen official site](https://www.carlyraemusic.com/credits/)
7. [Carly Rae Jepsen: Day and Night Album Review, Pitchfork (Marissa Lorusso, September 18, 2026)](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night/)
8. [Day and Night - Carly Rae Jepsen, Chorus.Reviews](https://chorus.reviews/index.php/albums/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night)
9. [For Carly Rae Jepsen, Indulgence Is Always In, Marie Claire (September 17, 2026)](https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/music/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night-interview/)
10. [Making Records, Being a Mom, Writing for Broadway—Carly Rae Jepsen Is All In, Vogue](https://www.vogue.com/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night-interview)
11. [Day And Night by Carly Rae Jepsen Reviews and Tracks, Metacritic](https://2.zoppoz.workers.dev/https/www.metacritic.com/music/day-and-night/carly-rae-jepsen/)
12. [Carly Rae Jepsen – 'Day And Night' review, NME (Nick Levine, September 15, 2026)](https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night-review-3968867)
13. [News - カーリー・レイ・ジェプセン, Universal Music Japan](https://www.universal-music.co.jp/carly-rae-jepsen/news/)
14. [Carly Rae Jepsen Wants to Be More Than Friends on New Song "On Wires", Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/news/carly-rae-jepsen-on-wires-song-day-and-night/)
15. [Carly Rae Jepsen lanza 'Motivation' y nos enseña a salir a la pista de baile junto a su sobrina Ivy, LOS40 (August 21, 2026)](https://los40.com/2026/08/21/carly-rae-jepsen-lanza-motivation-y-nos-ensena-a-salir-a-la-pista-de-baile-como-su-familia/)
16. [Carly Rae Jepsen reivindica las familias intensas y algo locas en 'Motivation', LOS40 (August 24, 2026)](https://los40.com/2026/08/24/carly-rae-jepsen-reivindica-las-familias-intensas-y-algo-locas-en-motivation/)
17. [Carly Rae Jepsen - Day and Night - Reviews, Album of The Year](https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/1882167-carly-rae-jepsen-day-and-night.php)
18. [デイ・アンド・ナイト[CD] - カーリー・レイ・ジェプセン, Universal Music Japan](https://www.universal-music.co.jp/carly-rae-jepsen/products/uics-1420/)
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