by Jack Gillespie Charli XCX’s career trajectory since 2015 has been incredibly thrilling to see unfold. Just one year after being a part of two of the biggest songs of the year (Iggy Azalea's “Fancy” and her own “Boom Clap”), she put out her EP Vroom Vroom in a collaboration with experimental producer SOPHIE that still stands as some of the darkest, out of left-field, yet enthralling projects to ever come from an artist as big as her. Since then, with the help of the likes of producers SOPHIE and A.G. Cook (co-executive producer of Charli), she has been consistently putting out some of the most forward-thinking, extraterrestrial pop music out there right now. From her collab-heavy mixtapes ‘Number 1 Angel’ and ‘Pop 2’ in 2017 to a spew of singles released in 2018, and even an entire scrapped album, Charli hit the ground running in this new direction.
A call to prayer for the life of the party
A mixed bag of electropop bangers
Charli Señorita CharliA sluggish middle sandwich-ed between experimental pop perfection
Number 1 Angel “Swallow my feelings, but won't swallow my pride / You know I've got a suit of armor on, you'll never see me cry / I hate the silence, that's why the music's always loud / So many problems, I try to drown 'em out” Charli Top Tracks: Recommended If You Like:The Pitchfork
