Charli XCX // Brat

Charli XCX is perhaps the most masterful image cultivator in contemporary pop music, straddling underground and mainstream trends with a calculated abandon captured perfectly on Brat. Fusing the hyperpop sound of her most exciting releases with the spirit of Y2K club music, her sixth studio album is also her most confessional since how i’m feeling now, making for an endlessly loopable party mix that both meets and defies expectations as only she can.

Highlights include certified bops “360” and “Club classics,” the towering “Sympathy is a knife,” hypnotic “Girl, so confusing” and introspective “So I” and “I think about it all the time.”