oshyms Posted June 7 Posted June 7 1 hour ago, bluevelvetcrowbar said: Waitttttt this is a SERVE get into a. g. if you're liking this, he's a genius 1
DAP Posted June 7 Posted June 7 It's not bad but I don't ever need a ballad from Charli again. Cut the shite 1 1 5 1
DevinWylde Posted June 7 Posted June 7 I really appreciate this, I feel like post-mixtapes she had a tendency to sort of jump around too much sonically. Self-titled was strong but half of the album felt like something she wanted and half felt like what her label wanted, and Crash feels very disjointed. HIFN was probably her closest to something consistent but because of time constraints I feel like it's not a fully realized concept, unlike this, which feels like a REAL thesis statement for everything Charli is. Also really genuinely obsessed with how the promo for this record played out, I think it's funny that Crash (the album she was all about being a sellout for) felt like a miniscule event in the scale of things compared to Brat, even while Brat's campaign was largely about Charli's lack of desire to play into popstar standards. Even the album cover, which I admittedly HATED, has somehow become iconic and evocative of how massive this album feels in a cultural sense. One of the few times in the last few years I've gotten the same sense of anticipation for a pop release and I love that Charli is playing it like she's not even trying. 3
skankle Posted June 7 Posted June 7 This is extremely half baked? Lyrics have never been ms XCX's strong point, especially when she's in sincere mode, but they're pushed to the forefront here and I'm forced to listen to several monologues she's delivered to her therapist with zero abstraction. She's barely even using her melodic prowess to impress emotion onto these tracks because she's in club chanteuse talk-sing mode... I like the bops at least, lemme stream Talk Talk again. Then I'll revisit N1A which is her album that is truly deserving of 90+ on metacritic.
JoeAg Posted June 7 Posted June 7 well it's 10:09 am and it's an extremely sunny morning in denver and i'm sweaty and walking home from my best friend's place and i haven't slept so now's a perfect time for my listen
JoeAg Posted June 7 Posted June 7 wow is sympathy for the devil charli's best song ever??? omg this bawp 2
JoeAg Posted June 7 Posted June 7 okay you know i'm really vibing right now because i'm walking by a lot of aromatic grass plants and sh*t and it smells nice and even though the sun needs to f*cking chill out a bit and a bee just clung to my left ring fingertip for like 3 seconds i'm very much enjoying talk talk!!
Chemist Posted June 7 Posted June 7 1 hour ago, qurl said: i'm happy to have been wrong about this album because from the original droplets (which i did like) i was just like …. okay so this is just gonna be a fully realized version of the stuff we've already all heard before from Charli, but the full album is fun, vulnerable, and the full culmination of hyperpop as a genre .. bravo Charli and in the sense that (TO ME!) she just released the best "hyperpop" album / collection of music ever and that will likely ever exist, and in conjunction with the end of PC Music, i think "hyperpop" as a whole can be dead now. i want the evolution of whatever comes after it, and you can hear lil tinges of that sprinkled throughout the album (Apple, Everything is romantic, I think about it all the time). and if Charli is at the forefront of that evolution , i'm interested in hearing what it sounds like I agree that hyperpop should be slowly done after this and A.G. Cook's album. it's becoming one-dimensional. She should focus on doing an album full of whatever the 365 outro is
ariesgroove Posted June 7 Posted June 7 Yeah, it's 2 a.m., and she's out there In the sheer white dress, wearing last night's makeup All coquette-ish in the pictures with the flash on Worships Lana Del Rey in her AirPods, yeah Yeah, she's in her mid-twenties, real intelligent Hedonistic with the gravel, drawing dead eyes You said she's anorexic and you heard she likes when people say it Think you already know it, but you don't
uusagii Posted June 7 Posted June 7 4 minutes ago, ariesgroove said: Yeah, it's 2 a.m., and she's out there In the sheer white dress, wearing last night's makeup All coquette-ish in the pictures with the flash on Worships Lana Del Rey in her AirPods, yeah Yeah, she's in her mid-twenties, real intelligent Hedonistic with the gravel, drawing dead eyes You said she's anorexic and you heard she likes when people say it Think you already know it, but you don't Charli XCX come on the pod!
Jukebox Posted June 7 Posted June 7 I've sat with this for most of the day now and I'm really happy with it! Is it my favourite Charli project? No, but there's some real standouts on here. I'm a N1A girly so Rewind and So I immediately stood out to me. But then songs like Sympathy Is A Knife and 360 bring out the Pop 2 girly in me. I actually think all of the singles are some of the biggest standouts on here, Club Classics especially. I was kinda hoping for a whole album of that vibe which is why I'm kinda itching over when this remix album is coming. The only songs I don't vibe with are I Might Say Something Stupid and 365 which I honestly do not understand the hype over at all. It just sounds like a soundcloud remix of 360 and I hate the last drop so much. But yeah, I'm sure it'll all grow on me even more and I can't wait to bop to this album all summer, our girl did it again!! 1
Cruel Summer Posted June 7 Posted June 7 I'm still certain she and AG can take hyperpop further and into new territory, but I get the sentiment that some of what we hear here is a culmination of a long thread of ideas, made even more obvious by some of the self-referential elements of various tracks. Nonetheless, there are moments on both this and Britpop that I think can help establish a foundation for the future. I think that dropping the whole "rip hyperpop?" sentiment of Crash - which was probably never serious in the first place - served Charli extremely well on the record since it sort of spans across many of the sounds she's done in her career. Now that I think about it, that's what I love so much about Club Classics specifically - it starts as a faster take on the classic sort of grandiose, epic Charli track in the vein of like Party 4 U and Track 10, but then breaks down into something else. 1
Mystic Warrior Posted June 7 Posted June 7 (edited) This is such a magnum opus for her. While not lyrically intricate, it is still incredibly raw and clever for her, even when she's simply letting her stream of consciousness play out over electronic synths that give me such nostalgia. There are so many influences heard across this album that really took me back to little middle school me discovering "techno" music in the 00s; influences from Uffie, to MGMT, to The Postal Service, there is so much to appreciate about this sonically and lyrically. Way to go, Charli! Looking forward to the remix record! Edited June 7 by Mystic Warrior 1
Venice B Posted June 7 Posted June 7 I just realized pitchfork hasn't updated Best New Track since march and it's still Von Dutch
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