if this were split into halves it's generally accurate (Cloud Aura, the new How Can I, Grins, and So Far Away are the worst tracks),
but how did you put the flawless You're the One below So Far Away!? You're The One will forever be a favorite. It's so crazy and weird in the bridge and then so beautiful and sweeping in the chorus.
My favorites (apart from Stay Away and Nuclear Seasons which I've already worn out back in 2011 ) are Lock You Up, Set Me Free, What I Like, Take My Hand and Grins. Such a consistent and well-flowing album. I love all the segues between the songs.
Set Me Free and Take My Hand I like this album a lot ! it's a bit overproduced but it's still good
the last two tracks are the only ones I didn't really like :P
Ok So Far Away isn't that bad and I even love Cloud Aura sometimes, it's badass, they just don't seem to be good enough for this album/I've listened to them to death already and they haven't changed at all for this album.
I guess my ranking would be:
1) Stay Away
2) Black Roses
3) You're The One
4) You (Ha Ha Ha)
5) Nuclear Seasons
6) Set Me Free
7) Take My Hand
8) Lock You Up
9) What I Like
10) Cloud Aura
11) the NEW How Can I (the original is way better)
12) Grins (it's actually a good song I'm just sick of it and I wish it had some more "oomph" at some parts. I love in the live version when she just screams before the bridge)
13) So Far Away (I love the lyrics I'm just really sick of the instrumental. I wish she changed it a bit, I've heard this song so much and I used to like it a lot but it was never a favorite to begin with).
Lock You Up, Grins, Black Roses and Take My Hand are fantastic.
And after that one performance they did a while back, was anyone else hoping Sky Ferreira was going to be added to Grins here? That would have been perfection!
I feel like my favorite is Take My Hand (I am living for the Lock You Up outro, "I'm in your head" )
Set Me Free is good but I feel like the demo is better?
Grins sounds so much better now, but How Can I was kinda ruined. I only like it bc it's higher quality.
None of the new songs (I didn't listen to the mixtapes) seem to be as good as the singles. Good album but a bit underwhelming; hopefully it'll grow on me.
Okay...so I am IN LOVE with this album. I had three breaks at work today and every time I went to my car to listen to this.
I am a HUGE Charli XCX fan, but I hadn't listened to any songs other than You (Ha Ha Ha), Nuclear Seasons, and You're the One. Why? Because I hate Mixtapes in general. I very rarely EVER like them. But I love this album, so I think I will go back and look at her mixtapes now! After I heard a lot of the songs were gonna be on this album, I held out because I wanted it all to feel "fresh" to me when it was released.
Gonna say it again. This will be my favorite album of 2013.
I don't quite understand why they merged pieces of "Grins" for the intro to "Nuclear Seasons". It's cute, though. "Nuclear Seasons" will likely remain my favorite Charli XCX song.
The new version of "How Can I" is kind of annoying, only because it was so short before and it just drags on now.
I still don't care for "So Far Away" or "Cloud Aura", but I didn't give them much of a chance before anyway.
My top 5 (subject to change):
- "Nuclear Seasons"
- "Grins"
- "You (Ha Ha Ha)"
- "What I Like"
- "You're The One"