“Is this a cry for help or just consistent branding?” one might ask after glancing at Charli’s Instagram. But armed with gory album art, Morticia cosplay, and lots of demonic social-media posts, Charli keeps hinting that something dark is afoot. So early singles, like the ’80s-inspired dance banger “Good Ones” and “New Shapes,” a synth-pop collaboration with Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek, seem like radio-friendly plays, at least compared to the hyperpop of 2020’s How I’m Feeling Now. As if to finally capitulate to major-label desires, the 29-year-old has admitted she’s going “ultra pop star” and “sell your soul” for her final album under the contract, Crash.
Since signing with Atlantic Records at age 13, Charli XCX has repeatedly implied that she has had to fight to create the sprawling, experimental pop she’s celebrated for today. Here are the records we’re looking forward to the most this spring. So while tons of long-teased LPs from music’s biggest stars, such as BTS, Kendrick Lamar, Cardi B, Lizzo, and SZA, have yet to be fully confirmed, the new potential stadium-tour circuit signals an optimistic future for heavy hitters to come down the pipeline this year. Some musicians in particular, like FKA twigs, the Weeknd, and Earl Sweatshirt, have already dropped projects that they started crafting in the early void of pandemic, two whole years ago - enough time for the concept of the quarantine album to run its course. According to lots of promises and teasers made in the final months and moments of 2021, everyone from Father John Misty to Kehlani is unearthing albums from the vaults where they’ve been stored, awaiting a live audience. If 2021 felt like a strange purgatory for artists who released an album but never really got to tour it, then 2022 promised to either be some heaven where concerts and festivals could exist without disruption or … more of our current hell (looking like the former so far, but we’ll see!). Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Getty Images
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