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Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 333 Ratings

  • Summary: The fifth full-length studio release for British pop artist Charli XCX features guest appearances from Christine and the Queens, Caroline Polachek, and Rina Sawayama.
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. The Independent (UK)
    Mar 17, 2022
    100
    Crash is a terrifically structured album, designed to get you up and shimmying off the lockdown pounds as tracks slot sleekly together. ... Crash is a top-down, foot-down trip.
  2. DIY Magazine
    Mar 16, 2022
    90
    She once again explores new ventures, crafting a pop album that celebrates the old classics as well as the new, and cements her status as a true pop trailblazer.
  3. Variety
    Apr 1, 2022
    80
    So, whether she means “Crash,” as some sort of elaborate art joke or her most direct-ever (potentially) hit-filled work, Charl XCX is going out from her longtime label with a bang.
  4. Under The Radar
    Mar 25, 2022
    75
    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.
  5. Paste Magazine
    Mar 18, 2022
    72
    It’s not her discography’s lowest point, but it is her first misstep. When Charli achieves the perfect confluence of what she loves about pop music, and what we love about her music, it soars, creating some of her finest material to date. But when that balance is not achieved, the songs can feel generic or reductive.
  6. Slant Magazine
    Mar 17, 2022
    70
    Though Charli’s latest jettisons some of the sonic adventurousness of her past releases, it still finds the singer workshopping the reckless abandon of her persona.
  7. The A.V. Club
    Mar 18, 2022
    58
    Overall, CRASH’s crystal clear production and iron-clad writing has all of the force behind it to propel the album into the stratosphere. But instead of putting the pedal to the metal in pursuit of a high camp sound, it stays in the slow lane.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 109 out of 116
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 116
  3. Negative: 1 out of 116
  1. renatvera
    Mar 18, 2022
    10
    La forma en que Charli se involucra de lleno en cada trabajo que hace, simplemente brillante, pop en su máximo esplendor, bops y baladas pop aLa forma en que Charli se involucra de lleno en cada trabajo que hace, simplemente brillante, pop en su máximo esplendor, bops y baladas pop a los 80', jugando siempre con los sintetizadores, autotune, mezclando todo su mundo para dar un increíble álbum.
    La intensidad con la que canta, su propósito de ser una verdadera estrella pop en este su último álbum con su sello discográfico.
    No hay manera de describir esta joya pop creada por Charli XCX en este 2022.
    Beg for you, Good Ones & Used to know Me Canciones claves del álbum.    … Expand
  2. Alternisc1
    Aug 16, 2022
    10
    Album tout simplement incroyable ! Impossible de s'en lasser même après autant de mois et d'écoutes.
    Une pépite tout simplement
  4. TadhgR01
    Mar 18, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Charli has crafted a new generation of pop, again. CRASH will be held in history to a high standard… Expand
  5. Luistheking
    Mar 18, 2022
    10
    Charli is out here delivering the best album of the year and one of the best pop albums of the decade.
  6. marcoanlm
    May 17, 2022
    9
    CRASH RANKING
    1. good ones
    2. baby 3. twice 4. constant repeat 5. used to know me 6. new shapes 7. move me 8. what you think about me    CRASH RANKING
    1. good ones
    2. baby
    3. twice
    4. constant repeat
    5. used to know me
    6. new shapes
    7. move me
    8. what you think about me - bonus track
    9. how can i not know what i need right now - bonus track
    10. lightning
    11. sorry if i hurt you - bonus track
    12. every rule
    13. crash
    14. yuck
    15. beg for you
    16. selfish girl - bonus track    … Expand
  7. Igor_J_F
    May 27, 2022
    8
    A good pop album, with a lot of high quality productions and sonority. Probably Charli’s best album!!! “Beg for you” it’s a powerful screamingA good pop album, with a lot of high quality productions and sonority. Probably Charli’s best album!!! “Beg for you” it’s a powerful screaming collaboration between her and Rina Sawayama, and it’s probably the album’s best song together with “Good Ones”, which it could be easily the main pop song of the year if it had a good investment as a single :( . The thing that bothers me the most, is the order of the tracks on the album, but taking it away, the album is amazing with a lot of good songs. Favorite songs : “Beg for you”, “Good ones”and “Move me”.… Expand
  8. Lucia89
    Mar 20, 2022
    0
    No me ha impresionado nada la verdad, tiene talento pero este álbum no creo que merezca la pena.

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