if Q1 2024 found us at the rodeo of pop-artists-gone-country, culminating in the magnum opus of beyonce's cowboy carter, then Q2 finds us on the dance floor, but not the glitter disco of post-pandemic yesteryear -- instead, we're underground, our boots are stuck to old beer on the floor, our tank is sweat through, the turntables are glitching, and we're kind of pissed off. frankly, we're acting a brat - cue Charli XCX's ostensible mainstream breakthrough by the same name. 2024's electronic pop and dance records have gotten heavier, synthier, bassier, bitchier, rawer, and saltier - perhaps 2 years of pink disco escapism has worn off and we're in desperate need of some eyeliner and some real talk. luckily, charli's gone and built a career off of it. from visuals, to videos, to personae, to attitude, brat has broken through - and, unlike charli's previous works, captured the zeitgeist right as it's simultaneously poised to realize it. she's finally found us mid-sentence, and we're finally ready to call her the it-girl. or at least that's what alex will explain to alec, who has long yearned for alex to wake up to charli's embodied genius. we'll probably keep talking about this record, but let's start here, and with some earlier notes from charli’s works - join us!