Charli XCX: Brat (black ice vinyl) [ATLANTIC]

Why you'll love it

This is the black ice pressing. Brat was Metacritic's best-reviewed album of 2024, went to No. 1 in the UK and won the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album, and "Apple" and "360" became the soundtrack to an entire summer.

This edition

• Black ice vinyl
• Single LP, 15 tracks
• Produced with A. G. Cook, Finn Keane, George Daniel and Cirkut

About the album

Charli XCX reached back to her teenage days performing at illegal raves around London as inspiration for the harder-edged, altogether club-friendly dance-pop found on her smashing sixth album, and was rewarded with the most commercially and critically successful record of her career. The teaser single "Von Dutch," unleashed to much excitement in early 2024, turned out to be no tease at all: Brat on the whole lived up to that bangin' tune's promise upon its arrival in June, leading many to dub the months that followed the "Summer of Brat." Its instantly iconic, neon-green artwork turned up everywhere from memes to billboards.

It wasn't just the Summer of Brat, either. Judging by the sheer number of "best of" lists topped by Charli XCX at the end of 2024, it was the Year of Brat. Metacritic affirmed it was the best-reviewed album of the year and (wait for it) one of the best-reviewed albums ever on the site. And beneath the hedonism there's real vulnerability, too: "Sympathy Is a Knife" and "I Think About It All the Time" hit hard. Advantage: Charli.

Also at Kops: more Charli XCX on vinyl · browse Pop

Tracklist

Listen

On Atlantic, first out in 2024.