how i’m feeling now
A frantic, deeply intimate document of isolation. Blown-out hyperpop production collides with raw bedroom diary entries about love, anxiety, and longing.
May 15, 2020 · Asylum Records
A frantic, deeply intimate document of isolation. Blown-out hyperpop production collides with raw bedroom diary entries about love, anxiety, and longing.
May 15, 2020 · Asylum Records
Metallic, blown-out synths rattle the floorboards while vocals bleed through a cheap laptop microphone, raw and unpolished. Recorded in the claustrophobic heat of lockdown, these songs feel like a late-night panic attack on a crowded, digital dancefloor. You are pulled between abrasive, distorted basslines and the quiet ache of bedroom diary entries. It is a sweaty, neon-lit rush of anxiety and devotion, captured in real time from the edge of an unmade bed.
“Charli starts and ends with hard disorienting club bangers, leaving the middle of the album space to expose her tenderness and vulnerability while still retaining her futuristic, unpredictable sound and penchant for an irresistible pop hook”Read review
“It’s fun and sometimes silly, made on the fly and under a tight deadline. But it’s desperate too — a frenzied call for release, an ode to the love that keeps us going, and further proof that no other pop artist today can make the digital sound so disarmingly human”Read review
“Charli XCX has proved that music really can be made anywhere, with anything, during a period where the world is on pause, and still sounds like the future is hers to play with”Read review
“The avant-pop artist documents her time in quarantine with the help of her fans”Read review
“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”Read review
“A brash, adventurous lockdown album”Read review
“While not life-altering, how i’m feeling now is fun, fast and thoroughly listenable. It’s absorbing as a document from a strange period, and its diaristic, vloggy aspects provide an intriguing peek into artistry under pressure”Read review
“A cultural landmark, a record of what we’re all going through together, something to show our grand-kittens and, at its core, just a really good record”Read review
“Written and recorded in just five-and-a-half weeks, this wonky pop record perfectly encapsulates the disorientating mood of our current, bizarre times”Read review
“The British electro pop artist sings of love, loneliness, and solo partying across an album built in and made for this very moment”Read review
“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”Read review
“The album speaks to our current circumstances without being exclusively tethered to them”Read review
How does how i’m feeling now sound next to the rest of Charli xcx's catalogue?
Solitude saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.
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