Charli xcx - Brat [Black Ice]

Charli's sixth studio album Brat arrived in 2024 as the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2022's Crash, which had already given her a number-one album on the UK's official chart. Where Crash played as a glossy, major-label victory lap, Brat pushed in the opposite direction entirely, an exhilarating club record built around high art references and blunt social commentary, marking a genuine new era both musically and visually for Charli.

Working with collaborators including Gesaffelstein and Hudson Mohawke, the album leans into raw, hedonistic club production wrapped around some of Charli's sharpest, most self-aware songwriting to date. The album's stripped-down lime green cover and Arial font became a genuine cultural artifact in their own right, spawning the viral "Brat Summer" phenomenon that dominated pop culture well beyond the usual album cycle, so much so that Collins English Dictionary named "brat" its word of the year. Singles like "Von Dutch," "360," and "Apple" carried that momentum directly, with "Apple" in particular sparking a viral TikTok dance that pushed the record into spaces most club-leaning pop albums never reach.

Brat debuted at number one in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, gave Charli her highest US chart position to date, and became the highest-rated album of 2024 according to aggregated critical scores, cementing her status as one of pop's most inventive and culturally dominant voices.

This limited pressing comes on striking black ice colored vinyl, housed in a gatefold jacket, a fitting physical package for one of the decade's most talked-about records.