Charli XCX - Spoons (2012)

In addition to Ariel Rechtshaid, in 2012 Charli XCX also began working with Swedish producer Patrik Berger, and after he sent her two beats, she quickly wrote songs for each, with one of them becoming 'I Love It' and the other 'You're The One'. She didn't end up releasing 'I Love It' herself as she could not reconcile it with her sound, but later that year, Swedish duo Icona Pop re-recorded the song and released it as a single featuring her vocals. The song became an international hit, hitting number 1 in the UK and climbing to number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2013. In June, she released 'You're The One' as a single from her EP of the same name, followed by her debut mixtape 'Heartbreaks And Earthquakes', a one-track file consisting of eight songs segued together and interspersed with film snippets, and including a cover of the Blood Orange song 'Champagne Coast' and Odd Future's remix of 'You're The One'. She followed that with a Halloween release of the single 'Cloud Aura' featuring Brooke Candy, followed by her second mixtape 'Super Ultra', which was released exclusively through her website in November. Despite 2012 being her most prolific year for official releases, there were a number of unreleased songs left over, enough in fact to have released a full-length album that year if she'd wanted to. 

Track listing 

01 Spoons
02 Heart Beats Hard
03 Dance 4 U
04 Losing My Cool
05 Rhinestone Hearts
06 Duke
07 Heatwave
08 Strobe Light
09 Diamonds
10 I'm Not Sorry
11 I'll Never Know
12 Valentine
13 Midnight