2017 Synth Pop LP Repressed for For RSD 2025 on Red Vinyl - Produced by PC Music and affiliates, this collection from Charli XCX is presented as a “project” rather than an album or mixtape. It’s largely stolen by its guests, like Uffie and CupcakKe.
Number 1 Angel is best at its most vulnerable. On “Emotional,” Charli guiltily relishes an affair, plunging into a cavernous Patrik Berger track whose doomed joy would fit perfectly on True Romance. “3AM (Pull Up)” contains an entire emotional arc: a heroically lust-lorn “holding on” hook, an ill-advised booty call answered to perky trop-house, then the same perk used to shoo him away, however long that lasts. A.G. Cook can’t resist turning the last third of “Blame It On You” into a jock jam, but the rest nails the late-night desolation of letting oneself be played.