At the heart of how i’m feeling now is Charlotte Aitchison’s heart. It uses the very exterior and physical qualities of shiny dance pop to examine interior spaces. And it has clearly been made with love, using all the tools at her disposal in the most creative ways possible.
Across ‘How I’m Feeling Now’ Charli rages with depression, anxiety, uncertainty, love and peace. Full of chaotic energy, it captures lightning in a bottle.
While how i’m feeling now is by no means Charli’s most genre-pushing work, nor an indication of the creative potential she has left, it will be remembered as a quintessential 2020 album.
Present and post-lockdown, how i’m feeling now will be a definitive album of its time.
On Charli XCX’s self-described quarantine album how i’m feeling now, her field of view has never been more vast.
While it may not be the proper sequel to the ambitious Charli, how i'm feeling now's rawness and immediacy give it an appeal all its own. More than just an interesting social media experiment or a way to fend off quarantine boredom, it's an artistic challenge that's true to the very best parts of XCX's music.
Though it lacks the alien opalescence of Charli's best record, how i'm feeling now contains a different sort of thrilling delirium. It's fun and sometimes silly, made on the fly and under a tight deadline.
How I’m Feeling Now is light on guests (purposely so) and polish. It returns to the gleeful disruption of her more ear-bleeding work, while piling on sing-song tunes.
how i'm feeling now is, to date, the most effective musical reflection of life during lockdown.
For fans of synth-pop, How I’m Feeling Now shows that good work can still be done with remote collaboration and the drive to create.
Charli XCX uses her isolation as inspiration for a brand new record conceived during the pandemic. How I'm Feeling Now captures the frustrations and pleasures of confinement with a feisty attitude.
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