What keeps pulling me back to Charli XCX’s newer records is

What keeps pulling me back to Charli XCX’s newer records is how they treat pop like unstable matter — melodies that should collapse somehow turning into hooks you carry around for days. You can hear the lineage from hyperpop and club music, but this album feels more interested in texture and emotional whiplash than just maximalism, almost like alternative pop mutating in real time instead of settling into a formula.