ATLANTIC
Since returning after a five-year gap in 2019, Charli XCX’s career has been impossible to pigeonhole, veering from the kind of tune-free irksome art pop beloved of FKA Twigs and Caroline Polachek on 2020’s How I’m Feeling Now (appropriately stalling outside the UK Top 30) to involving everyone from Ariel Rechtshaid to Digital Farm Animals among the 13 producers on the resulting carer resuscitation of Crash that arrived two years later.