“Charli is a near-perfect balance of trusty pop formulas and PC Music experimentalism.”
“British pop auteur Charlotte Aitchison has been based in the belly of the beast – the US – for some years now, trying to disrupt the global mainstream with her own mischievous futurist agenda. For every chart success, she acknowledges, there has been a tussle behind the scenes over her direction and levels of compromise. Charli, her third official album, finally hits a noisy, sweet spot. It is, h”
“This album has long been a tantalising prospect. Since her previous LP, 2014’s punk-inflected ‘Sucker’, Charli XCX has taken a turn for the avant-pop, releasing a string of experimental EPs and mixtapes that saw her fuse pop with woozy electronics and future-facing, crunchy production. In 2016, she released ‘Vroom Vroom’, the chaotic four-track EP produced by PC Music-affiliated producer SOPHIE, ”
“With adventurous production and revealing writing, Charli XCX’s third studio album reflects an artist ready to commit to self-examination.”
““The future of technology”. “The future of videogames”. “The future of music”. It’s always funny to look back at the past’s idealised version of our present to see just how far we went wrong. Charli XCX and her collaborators have been called “the future of pop” for a while, but she gets away with it because she knows how goofy that statement is. With its hyperreal PC Music production and aggressiv”
“Charli XCX's new album is her boldest statement yet”
“- die eigentlich perfekte kombi aus hyperpop und pop, sprich glitchy & weirde elemente, aber hinten raus alles angenehm geglättet - bestes beispiel wie schön sich x-fach gelayerte all-in autotune vocals anhören können - fand die feature-gäste net alle so richtig überzeugen - episches cyborg cover - fav tracks: 1999, thoughts, blame it on your love & white mercedes”
“Too long, not perfect, but marks the official planting her flag in this new sound she became so known for”
