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Dec 10, 2014Sucker is pop-punk, radically redefined and dragged, middle fingers waving, into the future.
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Dec 9, 2014Perhaps more than any other young hitmaker, Charli has a sound that is distinctively her own, despite the murderers' row of producer-songwriters onboard.
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Jan 5, 2015Her melodies are always on point and her voice is as strong and confident as ever, a very large and noticeable step up from the teenage True Romance.
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Dec 17, 2014Sucker’s greatest musical weapon is Aitchison’s voice--a posh, melodramatic caterwaul that will encourage either adoration or virulent hatred for all of its full-throated, Union Jack swagger.
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Feb 10, 2015For all its instant appeal, this is for the most part an album that eschews pop convention. After years of being synonymous with the prefix ‘ft.’ Charli XCX has found her voice.
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Feb 2, 2015This year’s first great pop record bowls in with a rapturous celebration of the genre's rebellious, trashy potential (and a bottle of champagne and a pocketful of pills to boot).
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Jan 5, 2015Sucker is a one-two punch of wit and grit, as irreverently bratty as the lollipop Charli holds on the cover yet never impersonal, perfunctory, or insincere.
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Dec 17, 2014Sucker is no retro gesture: Charli runs the album's rock & roll guitars and attitude through enough distressed digital production and thumb-type vernacular to make this the first fully updated iteration of punk pop in ages.
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Dec 16, 2014It succeeds as an introduction to Charli XCX the Pop Star while retaining her whip-smart songwriting and attitude.
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Dec 15, 2014The music is brash and glossy, but its attack is varied and full of clever moments.
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Dec 15, 2014Someone needed to author the aural equivalent of the body shot, and Charli XCX has provided the platonic ideal of just that: a party album charged equally with punkish rebellion, hip-hop cool, and pop universality.
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Dec 15, 2014Sucker is just an exceptionally good pop album.
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Dec 11, 2014Finally, a top 40 album that attempts to capture the restless energy of recent times and spit it out in a way that doesn't just feel good, but honest, too.
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Dec 9, 2014This collection’s predecessor, 2013’s ‘True Romance’, showcased an artist willing to take on the pop world. Sucker finds that same, singular performer rewriting the rules entirely, never mind breaking any, and beating pop at its own game.
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Dec 17, 2014Sucker, for all its charms, occasionally comes off as one-dimensional. But there were few records this year as sparkly and blindingly colorful, with production values that revel in excess and a mischievous spirit that rivals the best of Charli’s rebellious, sexually adventurous forebears.
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Dec 12, 2014It's not her finest work, but it's plenty good enough to rope a cohort of new fans into what's promising to be one hell of a creative ride.
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Dec 16, 2014For all her bratty star power, Charli XCX’s purest magic lies in the intimate--not the irreverent.
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Dec 15, 2014A damn fine album from Charli XCX, one that doesn't waste any time getting to the sugary center of the London chanteuse's signature dance pop.
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Dec 12, 2014More than a dozen collaborators--including Ariel Pink, Ariel Rechtshaid and Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij--helped realize these 14 tracks, but their voices never overshadow Aitchison, who is finally given the spotlight she's rightfully earned.
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Dec 22, 2014She’s successfully roping punk into pop and laughing her way to the top.
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Dec 16, 2014There’s maturity and depth to the songwriting and production on that track that suggest a way forward for Charli XCX, and coupled with the other hits on the record, make Sucker an accomplished, if fitful listen.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 306 out of 388
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Mixed: 37 out of 388
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Negative: 45 out of 388
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