Charli XCX has been writing songs since she was 14, and following her breakthrough debut album 'True Romance' in 2013 she's achieved significant success among young pop fans. Following the success of her second album 'Sucker', and the singles from it 'Break The Rules' and 'Doing It', she began working alongside producers associated with the UK collective PC Music, developing a more experimental sound and image. While working on her third album, she released the 'Vroom Vroom EP' in 2016, and a couple of mixtapes appeared in 2017, with 'Number 1 Angel' and 'Pop 2' both delighting fans. The same year she released the singles 'After The Afterparty' and 'Boys', both of which were to feature on her third album, tentatively titled 'XCX World'. The album was completed in mid-2016, but after being delayed multiple times it was eventually shelved, although it was leaked online in August 2017, ultimately causing its release to be cancelled. Charli XCX then started working on new projects, which eventually became 2019's 'Charli' studio album. The scrapped album's photoshoot, shot by Bradley & Pablo, also leaked in August 2018, so fans now had the complete package of songs and artwork, and she's since admitted that she's aware of the album's popularity amongst her fans, and that she loves the songs that were meant for it, but that the album will likely never be released. Despite its unfortunate fate, Charli XCX repurposed some of the songs, and officially released 'No Angel' and 'Girls Night Out' - previously teased as unreleased songs from the album - as installments from a series of monthly singles in the summer of 2018, and so 'XCX World' has ended up as a mixture of released and unreleased tracks, and what she has described as "the most pop thing, and the most electronic thing" she had ever done. Following this introductory post, I shall be posting a series of albums made up of unreleased songs from the last 14 years, taken from the nearly 200 tracks that she's recorded over that period which have never seen the light of day, including the legendary punk album from 2014 , and a collection of demos that she recorded to offer her songs to other artists.
Track listing
01 Girls Night Out (feat. TyNi)
01 Taxi
03 Come To My Party
04 The One I Die 4
05 Bounce (feat. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu)
06 Waterfall (feat. Nooie Bao)
07 Down Like Woah
08 Queen Lizzy
09 Good Girls
10 Can You Hear Me?
11 No Angel
12 Boys
13 I Wanna Be With U
14 After The Afterparty (feat. Lil Yachty)
Another awesome comp. Thanks so much.
ReplyDeleteHello sir, it's been a long time since I checked in, though I've been keeping up with your work religiously. I just wanted to drop in and say hello and THANK YOU so much for all that you do and post here. As always I continue to have new exciting music from artists I know well or new takes on unreleased stuff I have in other forms as well as a forum for learning about all kinds of stuff I'm not familiar with. I'm esp excited for this Charli series. As well as all the other sort of recent hip hop rnb stuff you've been up to. Hope all is well.
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