At Storm King Art Center in upstate New York on Thursday, a grand Brat green edifice — folded like a record sleeve and boasting the name of Charli XCX’s next genre-defining album, Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat — marked the official changing of pop music’s seasons. Amidst the venue’s scenic greenery, XCX herself played the hotly-anticipated remixed album in full for the first time to an intimate crowd, and 16 hyper tracks later, Brat summer became Brat autumn.
Now, the reworked record is out for all ears.
Charli xcx has declared ‘brat autumn’ during the live listening party 💚🍂 pic.twitter.com/0AjH5LaFy8
— xcx source (@xcxsource) October 10, 2024
“When the song comes out… there’s still so many different versions of that song that could be made,” Charli explained of the record’s creation upstate. Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat turns the flagship album on its head, with an abundance of intentional, fresh takes on fan-favorite tracks that, in some instances, sound like entirely new iterations of their predecessors altogether.
Robyn and Yung Lean hop on “360;” Ariana Grande gets angelic on “Sympathy is a knife;” The 1975 and Jon Hopkins put an alternative edge on “I might say something stupid;” Bon Iver makes “I think about it all the time” feel like the future’s favorite classic, and Tinashe brings the volume even higher on “B2b.”
Elsewhere, the record includes remixes from the likes of fellow SWEAT Tour headliner Troye Sivan, Addison Rae, A.G. Cook, Caroline Polachek, Bladee, Lorde, Julian Casablancas, Bb trickz, Shygirl and Billie Eilish.
Listen to Charli XCX’s Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat on Spotify and Apple music below.
