For the reason that launch of her 2022 album Crash, Charli XCX has been centered on making a physique of labor that displays the musical world she was introduced up in. Within the lead-up to her new album Brat, the British singer has been teasing a return to her private roots within the membership world, partially evidenced by lead single “Von Dutch.” Together with her sixth full-length LP, XCX has succeeded in her mission.

Brat is a marked sonic shift from Crash, the place XCX took a mainstream pop tack much like that of her 2014 sophomore album Sucker. On this transition again right into a extra acquainted sound within the vein of her mixtapes Number one Angel and Pop 2, she’s discovered the place she’s most comfy each on a creative and superstar degree, even when among the normal public could be confused by it.

“I might in all probability function in a extra industrial world,” she informed British GQ final month. “Typically I tempt myself with going there, however I believe the issue is my fanbase is aware of that that’s not who I’m, so that they sort of scent a rat, they usually’re like, ‘That is inauthentic.’ However then I believe that typically places me on this place the place the plenty are like, ‘What the f**okay is that this?’”

“However I’d on no account be as pleased, creatively glad or, truthfully, nearly as good as among the people who find themselves working on a massively industrial degree, as a result of perhaps I’m simply not constructed for it,” she added.

XCX shines on her personal with no featured visitors on the undertaking and totally brings her imaginative and prescient to life. Ultimately, it’s each a end result of all the things she’s completed in her profession up till this level and affirmation that who she is as an artist is invaluable to pop music as a complete.

​“I used to be born to make dance music. I got here from the golf equipment,” she declared proudly on social media. “[Brat] is the album I’ve at all times wished to make.”