Carly Rae Jepsen does not forget. Three weeks after handing fans a 24-track double album, she announced a companion release: Day and Night (Continued), carrying eight additional tracks to streaming this Friday, Oct. 9.
“B side lovers I see you and I didn’t forget our not so secret pact! Let’s get freaky,” she wrote on X, tacking on a handshake and a pair of headphones. It reads like a joke about a fan base that has spent a decade treating her outtakes as a canon of their own. It is also a release date.
The habit goes back to 2016, when Emotion Side B turned unreleased cuts from her 2015 cult favorite into a standalone record. That set ran eight tracks too — the same count as Friday’s drop — and peaked at No. 55 on the Canadian Albums chart. It also yielded “Cry” and “Roses,” songs Jepsen later credited with helping her be “less hard on myself about what I say yes to and what I say no to.”
She ran it back in 2020 with Dedicated Side B, then stopped pretending in 2023: The Loveliest Time arrived as a full album a year after The Loneliest Time, not a leftovers bin.
Day and Night landed Sept. 18 through Schoolboy and Interscope as her first double album, split into 12 folk-leaning, live-instrumented Day songs and 12 synth-driven Night songs, sequenced as separate discs on CD and separate LPs on vinyl. Rolling Stone called it “her most experimental and exhilarating work.” NME singled out the ABBA-steeped “Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor” as the Night half’s melodic peak.
Much of it was written after Jepsen, 40, toured Europe with producer Cole M.G.N., whom she married in October 2025. “Just a Little Walk on the Moon,” the bossa nova number that closes the Day side, is an ode to their son, born this spring.
The calendar is not empty beyond the vault. She headlines the New York stop of the All Things Go festival on Sept. 27, sharing a bill with Zara Larsson, Brandi Carlile, Lola Young and MUNA, and is writing music and lyrics with Ethan Gruska for a Broadway adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You, with a book by Lena Dunham and Jessica Huang, aimed at 2027.
Eight songs, Friday, midnight. The pact was never the secret part.
