Charli XCX | Feature Artist

Approaching two years since it took over the world, it’s not controversial to say ‘brat’ is a modern masterpiece. Of the big three to break through in 2024 (next to Chapelle and Sabrina), Charli was always the critical favourite and the one to truly define the moment (pardon the pun).

There’s a mass of critical writing and reviews for ‘brat’ expressing the full spectrum of opinions and love, with it mostly being the latter. For that moment in June 2024, it really did capture the nerds and the plebs alike with one of the best rollouts and lead singles in memory.

As for our opinion, it’s a new classic. Everything has been said mostly on our part by the level of praise it got.

Charli is now wrapping up the entire ‘brat’ era with the mockumentary ‘The Moment’ and the final festival appearances centring around the record. On top of that, she’s taken up acting and score-work with the Wuthering Heights soundtrack in collaboration with John Cale (arguably the best thing to come out of the movie). It was always hinted that Charli appreciates the Velvets and Nico, but it’s a great full-circle moment to see her embrace even more experimental aesthetics, signature to John Cale (drone, wall of sound, etc.).

But it’s over now, as Charli has proclaimed, as apparently “the dance floor is dead” (wrong - see new Fcukers album), and she’s planning on dropping a rock record with A.G Cook. Our money is on it sounding like the Strokes, but it’s awesome to see Charli simultaneously play with the idea of finishing this legendary run, but also experiment with it in its twilight moments.

And that’s it for now. We all got to watch a classic get released in real-time with perfect execution. And now we get to watch it finish with a really nice touch.

‘brat’ is available in the Store now.

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