“I go hard, I go fast, and I never look back,” Charli XCX emphasized at the very beginning of her last album, Charli, which dropped just eight months ago.
This unerring, machine-like drive — one that’s established her as one of the most prolific pop artists of our generation — resurfaces almost immediately at the top of how i’m feeling now, her new album, released this morning. “I just wanna go real hard,” she deadpans in front of a webcam on “pink diamond,” wrapped in a thicket of wonky synths sculpted by Dijon and A.
G. Cook. She keeps repeating the line, drained but persistent, almost as if she has to insist on it. Whether or not it’s possible to go hard in the middle of lockdown is the question that tugs at every thread of how i’m
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