★★★★★
Could it be that debut albums are becoming even more of a litmus test for the increasingly countless artists who manage to get written about somewhere within the wide expanses of the internets? If so, it would especially apply to those fortunate few whose song gets picked up for a day -- a week, if they're really lucky -- by some blog, zine, or other...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2013-07-17
★★★★★
Charli XCX was introduced to me by Icona Pop's now smash hit, I Love It. You can't really tell what Charli is doing on the track, google told me it's background vocals, but it's an odd credit because if you've ever heard Icona Pop, you understand it's really just a band that's based around two chicks yelling stuff. I thought maybe she produced it, who the Fuck can tell with these things...
- www.syffal.com
2013-06-12
★★★★★
Internet platforms aren't genres, and maybe it's time to call a moratorium on treating them like they are. In 2006, when Charlotte Aitchison turned 14, she started recording a later-shelved album she has more recently disowned as "fucking terrible MySpace music." Now, almost seven years later, her proper debut album as Charli XCX can hardly avoid comparisons to Tumblr, from fans and detractors alike...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
There's no nice way to say this: Charli XCX makes goth-pop for Tumblr nuts. Thing is, it seems to be working for her. Charlotte Aitchison had a dodgy start to her career in 2008, hawking tracks called 'Art Bitch' and '!Franchesckaar!', but a couple of years ago she re-emerged with great eye make-up and a more sophisticated sound. Since then she's released a series of moody electro tunes ('Stay Away', 'Nuclear Seasons') that the blogs keep saying are actually pretty good...
- www.nme.com
2013-04-22
★★★★★
With her proclivity toward leopard print and a love for sugary goth-pop, as featured on Icona Pop's now-gold single "I Love It," Charli XCX, nee Charlotte Aitchison, might as well be a mid-'90s mall rat. But to turn her out as a simulacrum of Gwen Stefani's "Hella Good" years would be doing her a great injustice. At just 20 years old, the Hertfordshire, U.K., native has churned out a series of electro-pop songs that have only improved over the past few years...
- www.cmj.com
2013-04-18
★★★★★
After almost three years, Charli XCX has finally graced us with the much promised and much anticipated major label debut. The Brit Goth-pop princess who brought us the explosively infectious and wonderful "Nuclear Seasons" has donned enough material to warrant an entire full-length album as opposed to the many singular EP-like releases she's been teasing us with over the past two years. The first impression of True Romance is that it's disappointing...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-04-18
★★★★★
That True Romance is likely to ruffle few feathers on its release speaks volumes about the current shape of modern-day pop music. Once upon a time, such a collection of android beats and glitch-riddled melodies would have singled its creator out as a libido-led sonic provocateur. In 2013 it merely ensures Charli XCX's place in the pack.Still, there's an element of the unexpected to the artist christened Charlotte Aitchison...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-04-18
★★★★★
Available on: Asylum LP
Picture the scene. You are Alan Cumming in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. You've come back triumphant after all these years, leaving the naysayers to look on in quiet awe. As the night draws to a close you step onto the dance floor and extend your arms out invitingly, and two smaller, softer hands fold into your own. This is your moment - a resounding assurance that you have finally made it - and the floor is yours...
- www.factmag.com
2013-04-18
★★★★★
April 16, 2013
"We use to be the cool kids/You were old school, I was on the new shit," chants Charlotte Aitchison, a.k.a. Charli XCX, on "You (Ha Ha Ha)." She's on it still: Built from a shining sample of EDM artiste Gold Panda, the single highlights a dazzling electro-pop debut that splits the difference between Grimes' art-school affect and Robyn's emo disco...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-04-18
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