“On "Stay Away", Charli XCX's excellent single from earlier this year, the UK electro-pop singer built a slow-burning kiss-off of a pop song with low-lying synths, industrial textures, and a whole lot of shadowy atmosphere. We've seen what she can do with darkness and melancholia; new single "Nuclear Seasons", then, comes across as lighter at first, as her impressively versatile voice squiggles and”
