Charli XCX, the British pop star who once turned dance floors into theaters of euphoria, has made a dramatic pivot. A few years after 'Brat' made her the defining pop voice of the summer, she is exploring a grittier, rock-inflected vocabulary on her new album, 'Music, Fashion, Film.' The title itself suggests a checklist of everything she still loves, and everything she sees as doomed. Its cover, a black-and-white group portrait of Martin Scorsese, John Cale, and Marc Jacobs, announces a retreat from hyper-colorful digital aesthetics toward a more analog and nostalgic frame of reference.

It is a far cry from the artist who once posed as an It girl

Source: Neue Zürcher Zeitung News