Charli xcx - How I'm Feeling Now

The London-based singer/songwriter is quickly proving an unqualified phenomenon with her edgy, yet addictive Charli XCX approach. Since her first critically acclaimed track, "Nuclear Seasons," in 2011, Charlotte Aitchison has built a career on a steady stream of singles, mixtapes, and psychedelic pop culture collage videos, and by the time Sucker arrived on Atlantic Records in December 2014, she'd already become one of pop's most in-demand songwriters, having penned the number-one smash "Fancy" with Iggy Azalea, a song that topped Billboard's Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks and landed her performances on the mtvU Woodie Awards, the Billboard Music Awards, Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and the season finale of Dancing with the Stars.

Sucker channels that momentum into her second studio album, a throwback-leaning collection that trades polish for raw pop-punk energy. "Boom Clap" became the record's breakout hit, reaching number six on the UK Singles Chart and number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, while "Break the Rules" and "Doing It," featuring Rita Ora, kept the album's brash, hook-forward attitude intact throughout.

The album debuted at number 28 on the Billboard 200, Charli's first entry on that chart, and reached number 15 in the UK, earning strong reviews and landing on numerous year-end best-of lists for 2014. It stands as an essential early document of an artist who was just beginning to reshape pop on her own terms.

This clear vinyl pressing is a great way to hear where Charli XCX's singular pop sensibility first broke through.