
“When I get to club / I want to hear those club classics,” Charli XCX sings over a thumping bass wobble in the opening lines on the latest highlight from her new album, BRAT. That’s part request, and also wholehearted demand. The pop supernova very much wants to shape the future of music heard in these spaces for generations to come and achieve icon status with her next play. She wants it all done on her own rules, too. There’s reverence for those who reinvented dance floors before her as well as those who join her, with the listen honoring rave gods and electronic pioneers through a swathing, hyper synergy of synth-pop, breakbeat production, and chemical euphoria. When it hits, a chorus of Charlis sing that they’re going to go all night, and you believe them. You aren’t tripping, though — that’s just the power of XCX multiplied.
Charli XCX’s BRAT will be released June 7th on Atlantic Records.
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