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10.0
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Dork
Tight, focused and moving with dangerous intent, ‘Crash’ is Charli XCX’s main character moment
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10.0
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Gigwise
Charli doesn't need to be avant-garde to be iconic
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10.0
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The Independent
Charli XCX sounds like a woman loving life at the wheel of these 12 luxury pop vehicles
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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Going back to basics for her fifth album was something which few envisaged, but the decision makes perfect sense – Crash is nothing short of a victory lap
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9.0
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DIY
An album that cements her status as a true pop trailblazer
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8.0
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NME
The star marks the beginning of a more experimental chapter – but on the way out of major label life, she puts her own spin on mainstream pop
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8.0
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The Arts Desk
The subject matter throughout is love and sex, infidelity and longing
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8.0
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Vinyl Chapters
It’s her commitment to talking about the good, the bad and the ugly which makes the album so appealing
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8.0
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musicOMH
Occupies a completely different space with joyous music that flits between normativity and hall-of-mirrors-style subversion
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8.0
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Pitchfork
Charli’s best full-length project since Pop 2 is a canny embrace of modern and vintage pop styles by one of its most sincere students
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7.5
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Under The Radar
Crash, while certainly not for everyone (what is?), is Charli XCX’s own translation of wounds—ahead of its time yet delivered somehow at the appropriate moment
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Beats Per Minute
Crash is a pop album with more than ample zeal, and Charli’s hitting a groove that feels natural to her. Despite its minor detours, Crash is one of Charli’s better albums
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7.2
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Paste Magazine
The popstar's latest album is not her lowest point, but it is her first misstep
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7.0
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Crack
Strangely, for a so-called sellout album – is unlikely to draw in any newcomers to the XCX world. For fans who enjoy the whiplash uncertainty of the Charli experience, however, there’s a lot of face value fun to be had
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7.0
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Clash
‘CRASH’ is certainly a mixed bag, but it does demonstrate that, whatever her motivations and mindset, Charli XCX is an artist we should treasure
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7.0
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Slant Magazine
Charli XCX’s Crash finds the pop singer workshopping the reckless abandon of her persona
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
The ‘”anti-pop star”delivers mega-bops that don’t dilute her art-school eccentricities
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7.0
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Exclaim
It's the kind of brash, whiplash-inducing pop album that only she seems capable of making at the moment. It's a bit messy, but most crashes are
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6.4
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Sputnik Music (staff)
I don't mind an artist exploring different fields after they master a style, which she certainly did. Let's just hope next time it lands as well as she hopes this will
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6.0
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The Guardian
Torn between chart success and the pop vanguard, the artist self-consciously set out to make a ‘major label album’ – but it’s full of mixed messaging
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6.0
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Evening Standard
The style is big on catchiness but dilutes much of her spiky personality. And if she’s going to sound more like everyone else, it’s easy to side with the less adoring side of her following and wonder what the point is
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6.0
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Spectrum Culture
Charli embraces a festive dance-pop, with varied textures pulled from the ‘70s all the way to the explosion of electronic currents in the late 2000s
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5.8
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A.V. Club
After years of being the face of experimental pop, Charli plays into conventionality on her new album
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