CRASH
A high-octane, major-label pop spectacle. Glistening eighties synths and massive club hooks meet a dark, self-destructive femme fatale aesthetic.
March 18, 2022 · Asylum Records
A high-octane, major-label pop spectacle. Glistening eighties synths and massive club hooks meet a dark, self-destructive femme fatale aesthetic.
March 18, 2022 · Asylum Records
Bleeding mascara and screeching tires never sounded so calculated. Having spent years running from the mainstream, she finally decided to hijack it, wrapping herself in the slick, synthetic armor of a major-label villain. You get hyper-polished eighties hooks that feel like a trap, delivered with a cold, conspiratorial wink. It is the sound of a pop disruptor playing the industry’s game so perfectly that she actually ends up breaking it from the inside.
“Going back to basics for her fifth album was something which few envisaged, but the decision makes perfect sense – Crash is nothing short of a victory lap”Read review
“Charli XCX sounds like a woman loving life at the wheel of these 12 luxury pop vehicles”Read review
“Charli XCX’s Crash finds the pop singer workshopping the reckless abandon of her persona”Read review
“It’s the kind of brash, whiplash-inducing pop album that only she seems capable of making at the moment. It’s a bit messy, but most crashes are”Read review
“The star marks the beginning of a more experimental chapter – but on the way out of major label life, she puts her own spin on mainstream pop”Read review
“Charli’s best full-length project since Pop 2 is a canny embrace of modern and vintage pop styles by one of its most sincere students”Read review
“The ‘”anti-pop star”delivers mega-bops that don’t dilute her art-school eccentricities”Read review
“After years of being the face of experimental pop, Charli plays into conventionality on her new album”Read review
“‘CRASH’ is certainly a mixed bag, but it does demonstrate that, whatever her motivations and mindset, Charli XCX is an artist we should treasure”Read review
“Torn between chart success and the pop vanguard, the artist self-consciously set out to make a ‘major label album’ – but it’s full of mixed messaging”Read review
“I don’t mind an artist exploring different fields after they master a style, which she certainly did. Let’s just hope next time it lands as well as she hopes this will”Read review
“The popstar’s latest album is not her lowest point, but it is her first misstep”Read review
How does CRASH sound next to the rest of Charli xcx's catalogue?
A high-octane, self-destructive confident energy takes center stage here, weaponized through a cold, femme fatale persona that plays the ultimate corporate pop-star villain.
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