Charli XCX

Yeah, love it when she makes this particular sort of noise, great song.

It reminds me of a couple of bits of True Romance, only like how she would do them now.

I have been listening to True Romance quite a bit recently

The second single Claws is a really great song and video combination too. Both these songs haven given me a lot of comfort over the last couple of weeks. I guess I'm at the stage where Charli is one of those artists that I can really rely on. Very excited for the album next week, if she can still pull this off by that time.

Bumping this thread since the quarantine release is out tmrw--thought "Forever" was great, "Claws" was OK and this one was really good (there's one which see demoed on IG Live that at the time she referred to as "Project XCX" which now seems to be called "Anthems" which I'm esp curious as to how it'll turn out): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0D2fZ_P0Hg

This album is a start to finish masterpiece imo. It is so poignant but blissful! Veers from gecs-y anthems to og garage slow jams, and all the syrupy pop notes in between. Her best.

Whoops, 'she demoed' xp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gASgeLVBeNk

hyyyype

she actually got it done in time for a press preview?

it's out now here in australia

aaaa yes it do work that way

hyyyype!

Just gave it a first play on Spotify. It’s late and I need the 💤 but there were a few very promising moments. Will come back to at the weekend. Interested to know a bit more about how the “do it yourself” bits with fans worked.

this is really good except for "pink diamond" which is just too much for me lol. so much better than the last album even if i don't think it'll dethrone pop 2. think my fav is "detonate"

this is so good. "anthems"!!!!!!

I'm impressed!
In terms of what I hadn't already heard I really like the production on "C2.0" and "Detonate", and the finishing touches on "Pink Diamonds" are nicely slightly blown-out

Incredible album. Not one single misstep and several of the best songs she's ever done. Anthems is the one.

"c2.0" also really really good

c2.0 an early favourite for sure. visions also euphoric

this is good but it makes me hunger for more gecs

she's a genius and it's a certified wall to wall hood classic

yeah this is great, quintessential pop'n'lockdown album

hoodie classic

i'm drunk and this is wicked

srsly tho

c2.0 is truly exceptional

I'm not really on the mood for this but it's sick

The whole quarantine album concept is genius. The whole project has a bittersweet quality that anyone can relate to right now.

This bangs

This is very good and filled in a lot of gaps for me.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/16/charli-xcx-its-weird-yelling-into-a-mic-while-my-boyfriend-does-a-puzzle

Meaghan Garvey did a great interview with her on the new album as well.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/charli-xcx-profile-how-im-feeling-right-now.html

"plans to release two more albums this year" !!!

this album's the best, willing to say it's better than pop 2 now

yeah maybe.... like i don't even want to go and compare. this album is all i could want in this vein rn.

fucking pop 2, the fucking greatest fucking record FUCK

YES

apart from sucker obv

Would be interesting to see a Charli albums poll at some point. I have a hard time picking between Pop 2, Sucker and her latest.

SUCKER is the only one that doesn't work for me. I would probably rank them like

how i'm feeling now > Pop 2 > Charli > True Romance > SUCKER

It's crazy to me that True Romance is only 8 years old, it feels so far away at this point.

wahhht

dead to me

I just can't with all the punky rock bits

lol that's my favourite part :) nothing quite as thrilling to me as charli's rock phase - i loved seeing her with a tight band playing huge dumb riffs

It's probably her most uneven album but songs like Need Ur Love, Boom Clap, Doing It and the title track are still some of my favourite songs she's done. It's definitely the album of hers I've played the most.

I do like "Boom Clap" and "Doing It" is pretty good, but there's too much other stuff that grates on me

Breaking Up
Gold Coins
Hanging Round
Die Tonight
Famous

all incredible songs imo

You say you love me
I say, "What!?"

You say you love me
"OK, let's rock"

Everything was wrong with you
So breaking up was easy to do

Hated your friends and your family too
So breaking up was easy to do

It's slightly let down by a few songs on the second half. Hanging Around and Caught In The Middle definitely feel like filler.

Shame Charli has written that album off now. I guess it wasn't a great time for her with all her label issues. That was one messy album campaign.

Agree the second half is uneven but Hanging Around is glorious imo

I wanna learn to speak Japanese
Razor-sharp on the silver screen
You were made for a limousine
So get your shit now and come with me

I now realise I had neglected to put in the time with "how I'm feeling now" and it is of course a glorious masterwork, every track gives me pop chills

new song with no rome & the 1975: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wlz9tc5UQA

that image hurts my eyes

Sounds like a July song more than a March song, but I like it! A little too concise, maybe? Don't know No Rome, but a pretty faithful melding of their two styles.