Charli XCX Brat
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JohnnyoftheWell
July 11th 2024


64287 Comments


jfc find something better to complain about you whinging saps

bighubbabuddha
July 11th 2024


1400 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

i... agree with Johnny. what is happening?

jrlikestodance
July 11th 2024


6935 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"Finally got around to listening to this along with my GF. By the second playthrough, I was already half-singing along to Club Classics. Certified pop banger, and we need more songs like this in the pop scene. Between this, the new Kesha single, and stuff like Chappell Roan, I'm kinda glad pop is moving away from the more "sad indie-style" trend of the past couple years"



Preach, the "sad-indie style" shit does nothing for me!!! I'm a simple guy who likes to dance



Colton
July 11th 2024


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

they’ve never really been at odds with each other. both can co-exist. but fwiw i don’t think we’re really moving away from that sound. Billie Eilish’s new album just went #1

Jamdbz
July 11th 2024


1606 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

ticket prices are shitty



this album is not

AlexKzillion
Emeritus
July 11th 2024


19077 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

billie's album actually did not go #1... another victim of the tortured poets department™ which due to all the variants has been #1 uninterrupted for three months now

twlight
July 11th 2024


10641 Comments


Anyone who thinks this is better than How Im Feeling Now is fucking high

robertsona
Emeritus
July 11th 2024


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Much better imo. My favorite song on HIFN is “7 years,” and “sympathy is a knife” to take an example slams harder, and that song is hardly the best on here. Dunno

JohnnyoftheWell
July 11th 2024


64287 Comments


yeah significantly better. none of that second half falloff, awkward sequencing or overstimulated shrapnel (well, maybe a little bit, but it lands much better here) HIFN
"i finally understand" is the only HIFN track i care about after "7 years" rly - think that one was underappreciated on release, but holds up q well as a precursor to the stream-of-consciousness tracks here

robertsona
Emeritus
July 11th 2024


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I feel like batting average wise this album “feels/seems better than it is” but it rly is so full and solid

Colton
July 11th 2024


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

HIFN is way more consistent and she had a lot more to say

robertsona
Emeritus
July 11th 2024


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

ever since “this shit is kinda gangsta!” I take limited value from Charli’s lyrics. But even so the idea feels more like the tight, vivid mapping of a mood onto a lyrical motif and the energy that provides—to me, the energy is what she has to say, and I much prefer this album’s

AlexKzillion
Emeritus
July 11th 2024


19077 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

brat summer hifn winter two goats can coexist

JohnnyoftheWell
July 11th 2024


64287 Comments


it's called how i'm feeling now not how i'm coping about it not being winter

DamnVanne
July 11th 2024


3666 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I’ve been telling sad people to stfu for years

anode
July 11th 2024


3011 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

thatll teach em

TheManMachine
July 11th 2024


468 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

check the particularly unhinged Christgau take on this:



Charli XCX: Brat (Atlantic) No matter what the gossip sheets are selling, this is not where Scottish-Gujarati-Ugandan beatmaker-in-spite-of-herself XCX buries the figurative hatchet with Irish-Croatian-Kiwi singer-songwriter-if-you-insist Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor d/b/a Lorde. That hatchet was imaginary, just for show. Instead this is where Charlotte Emma Aitchison d/b/a Charli XCX and also as the one-woman embodiment of everything we mean by “novelty act” arrays a bleeping nosegay of the kind of sound-effect hooks she’s been known to apologize for when she was in a bad mood and put her own name or “name” on an album constructed from dance or “dance” tracks whose charm is a beaty artificiality that surpasseth understanding. After all, understanding is a bore. B PLUS

robertsona
Emeritus
July 11th 2024


28661 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah that review was insane I tweeted about it lol

JohnnyoftheWell
July 11th 2024


64287 Comments


tfw the only thing you have words to express is how much you miss being remotely media-literate. what a bunk

Pikazilla
July 11th 2024


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Christgau has a bleeping nosegay up his shitter



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