Album Info Hide Show Artist: Charli XCX Album: How I’m Feeling Now Released: USA, Canada & Europe, 2020 Tracklist: A1 Pink Diamond A2 Forever A3 Claws A4 7 Years A5 Detonate A6 Enemy B1 I Finally Understand B2 C2.0 B3 Party 4 U B4 Anthems B5 Visions Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. We ship vinyls in thick, rigid carboard mailers with a crushable zone on either side, and for extra safety we bubble wrap the records. 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You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show In April 2020, cabin fever met creative spark and Charli XCX threw herself into a sixweek challenge to make an album from scratch while stuck at home in Los Angeles. She set a hard deadline of 15 May 2020 and hit it, releasing how im feeling now as a tightly wound, 11track burst that documented isolation without losing the thrill of the club. It was a genuinely collaborative project too, with Charli sharing demos on Instagram Live and Zoom, releasing stems for fans to remix, and inviting people to send in clips for videos. The credits feature her longtime ally A. G. Cook, plus Dylan Brady of 100 gecs and BJ Burton, the latter known for his work with Bon Iver and Low. You can hear the hands on deck, but the voice and vision are unmistakably hers. The album opens with Pink Diamond, all serrated synths and clipped vocals, announcing the mood in under two minutes. Forever follows as the tender heart of the record, a lovesick rave memory that swells like a message scribbled in a diary then blasted through a warehouse PA. Charli shared its stems early and fans flooded the internet with mixes, which felt right, since the official video stitched together homeshot footage from around the world. Claws arrives like a sugar rush, its hyperpop bounce sharpened by Bradys taste for fizzy, mutant textures. Then I Finally Understand slides into a lean, UKleaning club pulse that puts the focus on her voice and the tangled feelings under it. What makes how im feeling now stick is the balance between glitchy maximalism and direct, sometimes painfully simple sentiment. Seven years is the relationship checkin no one expected to hit so hard, a plainspoken look at time spent and time ahead that landed differently in lockdown. C2.0 reimagines Click from her 2019 album Charli, swapping braggadocio for longing as she sings about missing her friends and the lives theyd built on the road. Party 4 U, a fan favourite from live sets for years, finally gets an official release here, and it still feels like a secret whispered in a crowded room. By the time Anthems crashes in, the mood shifts from introspection to pentup energy, the sound of a weekend that never quite arrives. Visions closes with a chaotic, euphoric run that piles on ideas until everything spills over, like a live set fading into the morning. The production story is part of the appeal. Charli recorded vocals at home, workshopped ideas with A. G. Cook over video calls, and kept up a steady stream of updates as tracks took shape. That transparency could have come off as a gimmick, but the songs hold up without the context. Theres a tactile quality to BJ Burtons grit, a playful pop instinct in Cooks edits, and a cartoonish gleam to Bradys beats, yet it all clicks into a sleek 37minute ride that never drags. Lockdown albums were everywhere in 2020, but this one caught a particular mood: anxious, affectionate, short on sleep, still chasing the drop. Critics heard it too. Pitchfork tagged it Best New Music, and it made a stack of yearend lists, with many calling it a defining pop release of that strange winterintospring. It felt like a culmination of the world Charli has been building with PC Music and her collaborators for the past decade, but it also felt immediate, like she was writing in wet cement while the rest of us watched. If youre crate digging, the How Im Feeling Now vinyl is worth snapping up, both as a time capsule and because these tracks hit beautifully on a turntable. The highend sizzle on Pink Diamond, the lowend throb of Forever, the sugarglass edges of Claws, they all light up a room. Charli XCX vinyl tends to vanish fast, so if you see it at a Melbourne record store, dont sleep. And if you prefer to buy Charli XCX records online, keep an eye on reputable shops that specialise in vinyl records Australia wide. It pairs nicely with other Charli XCX albums on vinyl too, especially Charli for the contrast, but this one stands on its own as a rare pop document that captures a moment and still bangs long after the moment passed. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review