Charli XCX introduced the album drop in entrance of a large vinyl cowl (Charli XCX)
Charli XCX has lastly launched her long-awaited Brat remix album, titled Brat and it’s utterly completely different but additionally nonetheless brat, and its secure to say critics and followers are loving it
Regardless of beforehand asserting the tip of “Brat summer season”, the brand new 16-song album consists of 5 beforehand launched remixes of tracks from the unique album.
The remixes embrace “360” that includes Robyn and Lung Lean, “Von Dutch” that includes Addison Rae, “Lady, So Complicated” that includes Lorde”, “Guess” with Billie Eilish, and “Speak Speak” with Troye Sivan and Dua Lipa.
The album additionally options Julian Casablancas, BB Trickz, Bon Iver, Bladee, Ariana Grande, Tinashe, The 1975, The Japanese Home, Shygirl, Jon Hopkins, and Carolin Polachek.
However that’s not all, the album incorporates 15 unique Brat songs, three songs from Brat’s unique deluxe album, and an additional 16 tracks which embrace beforehand launched remixes and 11 new tracks – 34 in complete.
Whereas some may assume that 34 songs may get repetitive or boring, Charli’s new Brat album is way from it. It seems to be like critics agree, with the Guardian giving the album 5 out of 5 stars accompanied by the headline “her lime-green imperial part is unstoppable”.
“They’ve received concepts popping out of their ears, and so they’re all good ones,” the Guardian wrote.
Equally, Slant Journal has given the album 4 out of 5 stars. Although it’s one lower than the Guardian, Slant’s evaluation continues to be filled with reward for Charli.
“The album serves as an extension of Charli’s mission as an artist, and reasonably than fee a bunch of DJs to reinterpret the songs, they’re produced mainly by Brat’s unique creators… Charli delivers a self-reflexive response to her success with a companion piece that’s simply as related—and simply as reflective of the zeitgeist—as its mother or father album,” Slant Journal mentioned.
Impartial music publication Conflict additionally cherished the album, giving it 9 out of 10 of their score system.
Followers didn’t maintain again both, with folks flocking to social media to share their reactions.
One Twitter/X person, known as Very Area of interest Homosexual, wrote: ‘Brat and it’s utterly completely different but additionally nonetheless brat’ is the sort of musical triumph I really feel like we haven’t seen in popular culture in a very long time. The Sweat tour, the multi-phase album roll out, the music itself… it’s the sort of magnum opus second different artists would kill for.”
With Brat 1.0 dominating the summer season of 2024, being co-opted by everybody from vice-president Kamala Harris to the “unique brat” Paris Hilton attributable to its meme-friendly and ingenious advertising and marketing marketing campaign, it’s trying like Brat and it’s utterly completely different but additionally nonetheless brat is effectively on its solution to dominating the autumn.
Brat and it’s utterly completely different but additionally nonetheless brat is offered to stream now.