Pop 2
A glittering, emotional blueprint for hyperpop. High-gloss digital production collides with raw, late-night vulnerability and extreme vocal processing.
December 15, 2017 · Vroom Vroom Recordings (2)
A glittering, emotional blueprint for hyperpop. High-gloss digital production collides with raw, late-night vulnerability and extreme vocal processing.
December 15, 2017 · Vroom Vroom Recordings (2)
Metallic auto-tune shrieks and shatters against a wall of pristine, hyper-synthetic glass, marking the precise moment pop music abandoned its analog tethers for a lawless digital future. This mixtape did not merely iterate on the artist's club-ready past; it incinerated the existing Top 40 playbook to build a collaborative, neon-lit sanctuary from the ashes. By fusing abrasive PC Music production with raw, late-night vulnerability, the record established the definitive blueprint for a new decade of underground pop. You are listening to the exact flashpoint where plastic artifice became the most sincere medium for modern heartbreak.
“A vision of what pop music could be, the sound of an eclectic, hyperreal future where romantic love is fun but fucked and partying is an emotional refuge”Read review
“Isn’t just about proving she’s more than your average pop star, but about her settling into her role as innovator, celebrator, and curator supreme”Read review
“The Engllish singer-songwriter offers up irresistible artifacts in strange, beautiful places”Read review
“Whenever Aitchison and Cook get around to making a followup to Charli XCX’s last album proper, 2014’s Sucker, the results are going to be deadly”Read review
“She’s singing for her own benefit, to make sense of the needless waffling and unrest in her relationships. More power to her”
How does Pop 2 sound next to the rest of Charli xcx's catalogue?
Underneath the blinding neon glare lies an unprecedentedly vulnerable core, capturing the exquisite ache of crying in the very center of a crowded dancefloor.
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