Charli XCX

also very cristina/ze records! i wonder if charli's ever heard this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9Fcln60Jw

Some of this album sounds like Transvision Vamp. Not saying that's good or bad. It just does.

i liked boom clap more upon realizing that it's like stay away brought out into the sunlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fkt91iye4c

i like everything i've heard from the album so far except "break the rules" so :D

getting the transvision vamp thing loud and clear on that one

oh man that rules

I'm still not sure about "Breaking Up", I feel like I'm always behind with Charli XCX, like my favorite song is always two before the latest one. Right now "Break The Rules" is the one that does it for me.

FEWMIN at the delayed UK release of the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImGHYBcKoGA

What a terrible show

yeah it's p much the worst

It was good at one point like a decade ago.

"I don't usually want to work with other girl writers - but she had my vibe," Stefani told Rolling Stone.

....tmi?

http://diymag.com/2014/12/08/charli-xcx-reveals-more-tracks-from-sucker

Wait, it's not coming out until January now?

Oh, phew. The US release date is still December 15th.

the songs arent playing in that link blahhhhhh

grrrr

http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/charli-xcx-sucker-famous/

ty tracerhand that one works!

love these

she is the meeting point between joan jett and cyndi lauper and I LOVE IT

i love it so much

The album is streaming on iTunes.

Oh wow, I finally got one of these First Play things to work!

Doing It is delicious.

one play in i'm pretty impressed. the production is very pleasing to the ear and it's all very hooky. just as i thought things were starting to drag toward the end she started doing some truly bizarre things with her voice. tentative impression: i think i will probably like this better than true romance in the end.

Oh damn, this is something isn't it?

Charli's talked a lot about worshipping Britney Spears and about Blackout being her favourite album of all time, and I think "Doing It" is the first time that idolisation has come across really strongly.

Album sounded fantastic on first play.

this is so great

FUCK YOU

SUCKER

this is the album i hoped 1989 would be (and isn't, except for "style," imo). not in literal style/sound so much as being a just knockdown-amazing-no duds pop album.

I'm in the middle of this and so far I'm loving the "new" tracks. Still nothing yet beats "Superlove" and I'm still annoyed it's not on the album.

i love "superlove" but i can undestand why it was left off.

xp i had that thought re: 1989 too! like there's only maybe one song i might possibly want to trim from this

whereas i had to excise like 25% of 1989 to make it palatable

Agree that there is nothing as good as Superlove on here but this album really is fantastic. London Queen and Break the Rules are probably my least my favourite songs. Doing It is the big highlight, incredible song.

I love London Queen.

i only had to hear this in full once and it instantly made my top 10 of the year. listened a zillion times since then

i feel like the most impressive thing about sucker on first listen is how it moves at such a brisk pace but the songs themselves are so self-contained that you don't really feel like you're constantly trying to play catch-up, it satisfies in that way from start to finish

"doing it" is magnificent, a really excellent simulation of early madonna imo

I read that as "a really excellent situation of early madonna" and thought "otm".

well, yeah

Doing It is wonderful, London Queen is dreck.

london queen is prob the worst song on the album but its still not "bad," imo.

idk what's wrong with all of you

it literally had me dancing into my office when I arrived this morning

"situation" and "vogue" was a favorite go-to blend of mine back in the day

"london queen" rules

yes i love "london queen"

this album is making me giddy w/ joy. love it.