While we know that Charli set out to make this album while self-isolating at home amid the coronavirus pandemic, "Pink Diamond" wasn't the kind of song built for sitting alone in your room and thinking about simpler times. She’s even been encouraging Angels to remix songs from ‘How I’m Feeling Now’ by releasing their stems online – and then playing her favourite reworkings on her Apple music show. “I’ve been reeling for 12 days/When I start to see fear it gets real bad,” goes the tender-voiced first verse of “detonate,” a dispatch from the anxious early weeks of lockdown, when the days were still few enough to count. Charli XCX’s “How I’m Feeling Now,” made in the past six weeks, is the sound of an artist pushing the boundaries of her music in real time. Larocca: "How I'm Feeling Now" is Charli's most cohesive work to date, with some of her strongest tracks ever created. They're short but sweet, and paired with the repetitive hook, the overall listening experience is engaging and vivid without being too overwhelming. Ahlgrim: "7 Things" by Miley Cyrus and "7 Rings" by Ariana Grande had already built a respectable altar to the number seven, and now "7 Years" has come to complete the holy trinity. The ‘workaholic party animal’ has, under the glare of social media, put together the ultimate lockdown album• Charli XCX: ‘It’s weird yelling into a mic while my boyfriend does a puzzle’, Sat 16 May 2020 09.00 EDT Whereas the album started with just an assault of noise, "Claws" offers an intermittent reprieve from the maximalist production when she hones in on her vocals and elongates her vowels on the pre-choruses. The second verse of its 10th track "Anthems," for example, was written while Charli was livestreaming on Instagram. Charli XCX review, How I’m Feeling Now: A brash, adventurous lockdown album. (Cool girls always look bored, what can I say? Launching a creative endeavor in public feels somewhat incomprehensible right now, when conditions for creating art are so uniquely discouraging. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. It's nice to see Charli exposing her vulnerability so blatantly. The album was entirely written and recorded during quarantine, sometimes using crowd-sourced suggestions from fans. Larocca: "Enemy" is the most grounded song on this tracklist; Charli pulls way back, building the track up through the sheer power of her voice and the glitteriest of synthesizers. Charli explained the nature of the album would be very DIY and “indicative of the times we’re in” – only using the tools she has at her fingertips (both physically in her house, and through online collaborators). With production sharper than an actual diamond, Charli opens her album with just straight NOISE. One of the best things about this album so far is that — despite the self-imposed time crunch and global panic it was created in — I feel like I can hear Charli thriving. The steady beat throughout reminds me of Grimes' "Oblivion," (which is, quite frankly, Grimes' best song to date) and I love how completely overdramatic Charli is about finding a love so strong she thinks it "might kill me, put me in the ground.". Aitchison has never specialised in over-intellectualisation, preferring bangers that live in the giddy moment. The final track, “Visions”, descends into sirens and frenetic, pulsating beats. Ahlgrim: To me, the centerpiece of "Enemy" is the wordless landscape that comes after the second chorus, and then again after the last chorus (not sure exactly what to call it — this song really resists simple structural labels). I came away from the album knowing with near-complete certainty that "Party 4 U" is Charli's greatest song of all time. But it’s giddy lead single ‘Forever’ that sees the biggest proclamation: “I will always love you,” she sings earnestly, “I’ll love you forever/Even when we’re not together” over euphoric, squelching production. It actually sounds like one of the most focused songs on the entire tracklist. It’s a tune Aitchison might have done anyway with producer Dylan Brady (of 100 Gecs), but more DIY. Larocca: I think Charli's using a vocoder at the start of "7 Years," letting her voice be echoed by a digitized version of it. And you can hear a certain apprehension at the current pandemic throughout; both in the fizzing production and frank lyrics (“I’m so bored, what/Wake up late and eat some cereal. Aitchison’s work is explicitly not for everyone; it aggressively foregrounds its own artifice. She sounds so soft! At almost four minutes in length, "Enemy" is not particularly short for a traditional pop song, but it doesn't overstay its welcome. Some lyrics have not exactly been sweated-over – “I love you forever, even when we’re not together,” goes Forever – but they chime with people feeling acutely separated from loved ones. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Plenty. Ahlgrim: My immediate impression is that "Pink Diamond" sounds like a combination of early Grimes, Charli's mixtape "Pop 2," and the sound effects from a Mario Kart race on a futuristic, extra-dangerous Rainbow Road. If the title flags its own diaristic intentions, How I’m Feeling Now reflects this workaholic party animal’s gratitude for love. (That's meant to read as a massive compliment. Listening to it feels like fleeing from a warehouse rave. It’s not the last. “You love me even when I hate myself, I’m sure,” intones an Auto-Tuned Aitchison on I Finally Understand, whose excellent bouncy beat comes from producer Palmistry; 7 Years is a hydraulic ballad that spans Aitchsion and Kwong’s long on/off affair. how I’m feeling now is and forever will be known as Charli XCX’s “lockdown album”, a media-fed phenomenon that she seems to be the only real evidence of. I love an uncensored, diaristic line like, "My therapist said I hate myself really bad." The album was entirely written and recorded during quarantine, sometimes using crowd-sourced suggestions from fans.The second verse of its 10th track "Anthems," for example, was written while Charli was livestreaming on … The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. But the most prominent new collaborator here is Dylan Brady of pop-deconstructionists 100 Gecs, a musically manic American duo whose debut album (called, naturally, “1000 Gecs”) twists pop into even more challenging, ADD-addled shapes. Charli began with a mid-March Twitter note, pondering questions that have become increasingly pressing as the music business scrambles to adapt to pandemic culture: When might it be safe to tour? Charli XCX’s “How I’m Feeling Now,” made in the past six weeks, is the sound of an artist pushing the boundaries of her music in real time. ), I'm impressed with Charli's ability to make her self-isolation routine at home — "Wake up late, eat some cereal," "Lose myself in a TV show / Staring out to oblivion" — sound less like the existential crisis it is, and more like the perfect backdrop for a rave (albeit, in another timeline where raves still exist and we're not all trapped inside our bedrooms.). Who will pay for artists’ work until then? ". It returns to the gleeful disruption of her more ear-bleeding work, while piling on sing-song tunes. The sentiments read simply, but with the collective fear and uncertainty of pandemic still surrounding us, their meaning feels profound.

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