The Return of Party Hauntology: Notes on Brat

Charli XCX’s Brat perfectly encapsulates the wet summer of 2024, for better and for worse. I find myself finally able to look past the lingering cynicism felt toward the private-school pop-princess and am met by a sense of contemporaneity that is immediately clarifying. For the avoidance of any doubt, it’s an album I really like. […]