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.
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.
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.
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.
how i'm feeling now is, to date, the most effective musical reflection of life during lockdown.
As lockdown creative projects go, a sourdough loaf is beyond most of us, so it’s remarkable that this prolific artist has met her deadline with music that never feels sketched.
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.
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.
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.
On Charli XCX’s self-described quarantine album how i’m feeling now, her field of view has never been more vast.
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.
Cover art makes me wanna sex.
But asides, I think everyone here is at this point aware that this is one of the most anticipated albums of the year. Charli, still fresh off the massive success that is Charli, decides to make a "quarantine LP" with the few producers that got locked in with her at her place.
If you haven't heard Charli, it's an incredible pop album, that succeeded to cross the bridge between mainstream pop recipes and experimental detours, most notably from the PC ... read more
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Edit: I enjoy this, this is a fun project. There are a good handful of tracks on here that feel tasteful, especially the songs produced by Dylan Brady. Overall though, this doesn't match the quality of the album Charli XCX dropped last year "Charli."
That project felt catchier, more immediate, more emotional, and more focused. It had tons of material, but all of it felt necessary. Much of this new album feels like filler. The moments on ... read more
Isolated, Charli offers us a fantastic and particularly energetic new project, which not only displays the inexhaustible talent she has, but also continues her crazy race for innovation.
In the space of 7 months Charli is ravaging the pop world, as if her latest super hit album wasn't enough for her. To our great joy she is not content to enjoy success as most would have done, she is thirsty to go even higher. At the top of PC music and Bubblegum bass, she is "slowly" leaving a ... read more
My prime takeaway from Charli's experimental stuff is that it's hit or miss. Except when it misses I *usually* still see artistic value, and if it's a hit it's usually a huge hit.
Best: anthems
Worst: pink diamond
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