Uproxx Music Critics Poll 2024: Albums – UPROXX

Most remix albums are slightly revised, if inessential, versions of their source material. Then again, most albums aren’t brat, so of course brat’s remix album is its own beast altogether. You could even make the argument that the wonderfully titled brat and it’s completely different but also still brat is the seventh proper LP from Charli XCX. But it’s still brat, a semantic ouroboros. It’s composed of the same tracklist as its sister record, albeit most of its songs’ variations range from the additional (yet earth-shattering) guest verse on “Girl, so confusing,” featuring Lorde, to the nearly unrecognizable iteration of “I might say something stupid” featuring Jon Hopkins and The 1975’s Matty Healy. Charli, contributing freshly recorded vocal takes, still sits at the album’s core, as she recruits a wide range of collaborators — Julian Casablancas, Troye Sivan, Bladee, Addison Rae, Bon Iver, Ariana Grande, etc. — to buttress her songs of isolation, deeming her isolated no more in the process. In other words, she worked it out on the remix. – Grant Sharples