Charli XCX: Pop 2 [ASYLUM]

Why you'll love it

Pop 2 back on vinyl from Asylum. Pitchfork ranked it 40th in its 200 best albums of the 2010s, A. G. Cook of PC Music executive produced it, and "Out of My Head" brings in Tove Lo and Alma.

This edition

• Asylum vinyl reissue
• Ten tracks, from "Backseat" to "Track 10"

About the album

After Sucker, Charli spent a couple of years making the strangest, most electronic pop she could, much of it with Sophie, and in 2016 A. G. Cook of PC Music signed on as her creative director. Pop 2 came out of that world in December 2017, a mixtape stuffed with guests, from Carly Rae Jepsen on "Backseat" to Kim Petras on "Unlock It", with Tove Lo and Alma on the lone single.

Reviewers loved it, and several called it her best body of work to that point, singling out the way it folds in electronic music from every direction. It's ten tracks, from the glossy "Femmebot" to the clattering "Track 10", and it landed one week before Christmas. Most people use that week to wrap presents.

Tracklist

Listen

Out October 23, 2026 on Asylum, a reissue of the 2017 mixtape.