Charli XCX: Sucker [ASYLUM]

Why you'll love it

Back on vinyl, the album that made Charli XCX a solo star: "Boom Clap" was her first top ten single in the US, and "Break the Rules", "Doing It" with Rita Ora and "Famous" followed it out the door. Rivers Cuomo, Rostam Batmanglij, Stargate and John Hill all had a hand in it, and it landed on plenty of best-of-2014 lists.

This edition

• 2026 Asylum Records vinyl reissue
• The 14-track album, with all four singles

About the album

After True Romance won critics over but not the charts, Charli XCX went looking for something louder. She told interviewers she wanted a record for girls to feel empowered by, with a "shouty, girl-power, girl-gang" streak, and she pointed at the Hives, Weezer, the Ramones and 1960s yé-yé as touchstones. The result is pop with its sleeves rolled up: "London Queen" mixes '80s punk with bubblegum, and "Gold Coins" struts like it owns the place.

Sucker took her on Katy Perry's Prismatic World Tour and onto every Jingle Ball stage going, and it laid the groundwork for everything from Pop 2 to Brat. Listen now and you can hear the Brat Summer DNA already in place; the only thing missing in 2014 was a shade of green.

Tracklist

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Out October 23, 2026 on Asylum Records, a reissue of the 2014 album.