Number 1 Angel.
| Charli XCX
Number 1 Angel.
Number 1 Angel is the third mixtape by English singer and songwriter Charli XCX, released on 10 March 2017 by Asylum Records. The mixtape contains ten tracks and was created in Los Angeles as a collaboration with producer A. G. Cook, the founder of PC Music. Several other producers associated with the label also contributed to the mixtape, including Sophie who previously produced Charli XCX's extended play Vroom Vroom. Musically, it has been labeled as avant-pop and electropop. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Produced by PC Music and affiliates, this collection from Charli XCX is presented as a “project” rather than an album or mixtape. It’s largely stolen by its guests, like Uffie and CupcakKe.
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NME
This will more than tide us over until her next album drops
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Tiny Mixtapes
It’s the dipping and sharp turns and the collisions that inform an art, give our bodies reason to move and live. Number 1 Angel: the un-mixtape before the who knows what is out of time, already after “After the Afterparty” and done before “1 Night.” It’s non-linear Technicolor, an ode to you and me and pop music and, ultimately, to Charli XCX: “It’s Charli, baby/ It’s Charli.”
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Billboard
Charli's new 'Number 1 Angel' mixtape isn't necessarily a throwback to breakthrough LP 'True Romance,' but it is the closest she's come to that album's unique brand of gorgeous, diaristic hypno-pop…
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NPR
Charli XCX's Mixtape 'Number 1 Angel' Is A Fantastic Pop Diary.
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positivelyunderground
Charli XCX remains a very inconsistent force in the pop industry. She’s trying to uplift some experimental pop ideas into the mainstream, but a lot of times it sounds a bit too akin to the material she was making before running into SOPHIE. In her later endeavors, I hope to see her either take all the risks or perhaps just own the normal pop label and make a bit more of a lyrica statement.
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Sputnik Music
I’m tempted to address N1A as the culmination of her potential as an artist, the realization of her 14-year-old dreams, but this is a pre-album mixtape, not even supported by her label. It feels strange for me to say she’s not there yet, considering this tape – that most people in her position would use for discarded tracks and unfinished ideas – is the best pop project of the year, but it’s true. Here’s hoping for her future.
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Crack Magazine
Love it or hate it, Number 1 Angel is unashamedly fierce.
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Idolator
For fans desperate for a champagne-fueled party album, Number 1 Angel will be too slow and too sad. However, the mixtape confirms that Charli is still the one to watch in pop — someone capable of penning a massive pop song and giving it emotional weight. Let’s hope the mixtape blows up and inspires her label to loosen the reins and release that album.
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The Interns
Number 1 Angel feels restless, energetic and frustrated. That's the best part about it.
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AllMusic
Yet another sonic shift for the singer, Angel employs tropical bounce, cavernous electronics, and trap-rap influences on ten tracks that are more M.I.A. than Marina and the Diamonds.
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XFDR
There is little argument to be had over the frivolousness of mainstream music when artists like XCX have such a palpably playful penchant for experimentalism. And still, there can be no question about her humanness, thereby electing Charli XCX as the ultimate angel-on-earth when it comes to maximizing the carnal-emotional spectrum that differentiates the divine from us mere mortals.
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Immortal Reviews
This mixtape is a mess of memes for features and tired music. There is nothing with any meat or anything that reaches an interesting level. Number 1 Angel is tired and attempts to create catchy pop tunes out of the standard, tired sounds, leaving you with a boring record to listen to.
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We Plug Good Music
The production is consistently perfect, it’s lush, extensively varied and inventive. It’s the definition of futuristic pop. Each sound is an aural feast. Charli XCX has managed to craft a stylised, highly-focused project that’s far better than the current wave of pop. She’s got the sickly sweet, the trashy-sex talk and a tonne of swagger that carries the mixtape from start to finish. It’s such a blast to turn the volume up and be swallowed by the sheer chaos. Number 1 Angel is ultra-hyper, super sexual, cyber-bubblegum pop music at it finest.
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Muse
Charli XCX's new mixtape will more than satisfy fans eagerly awaiting her third album.
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God Is In The TV
Number 1 Angel manages to strike a balance of the sounds Charli has succeeded at in the past whilst still taking risks. She’s fused the dark 90s R&B of True Romance with the fiery attitude of Sucker and presented it as a concise and rewarding 10 track. She’s already made two of the best albums released this decade and this mixtape is a good indication that she’s back on the right track to make a third. Hopefully her record company won’t keep us waiting much longer to find out.
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The National Student
Number 1 Angel is not the sound of an artist getting lost in the crowd – it reveals a songwriter intimately aware of current pop trends, confident in her vision, with a firm grasp on the tools necessary to make her mark in the industry.
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The Pop Explo$ion
“Lipgloss” is as Hi-NRG as it gets with a pummeling beat mixed with a spiraling synth that only take s break during cupcakKe’s rap verses, where a heavy bassline gives you a muted needed rest. While most artists are afraid of looking too bubblegum pop, Charli plays right into it with the infectious chorus repeating, “Mmhmm, I keep it sticky-icky like lipgloss.”
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