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How do you make a follow-up to one of the biggest dance albums of the decade? If you’re Charli XCX, you turn in the exact opposite direction. In a new British Vogue cover story, Charli revealed that her first post-Brat studio album will be a total departure from the record that gave us “Kamala Is Brat” and the “Apple” dance. In fact, it’s going to be a rock album.
“I think the dance floor is dead,” Charli told the magazine, “so now we’re making rock music.” She recorded the album — the title of which is still a secret — in Paris alongside longtime collaborators AG Cook and Finn Keane, and she said she knew it would be “this very hectic, rich time, and we like creating in that kind of atmosphere.”
Obviously, Charli could have just done Brat 2.0, but she said that making another dance album would have “felt really hard, really sad.” The new tracks are apparently stripped of her now-signature Auto-Tune and feature actual guitars, which Charli refers to as “our version of analogue, which is so silly and funny.”
I guess this means it’s time to say good-bye to Brat summer. It will be missed, but I look forward to its younger sibling: “Untitled Charli XCX Rock Album Summer or Maybe Early Fall.” It’ll have a better ring to it when we get a title and a release date.
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