【Listen And Download】Charli XCX How I’m Feeling Now Mp3 Album Download As New York and LA first settled into the social-distancing/shelter-in-place guidelines, Charli began by sharing a quarantine diary. In the first entry, she admitted that this sort of scenario was daunting for a person like her — a self-professed workaholic accustomed to always being on the move, always having another project in the pipeline. It didn’t take long for her to turn this time into something positive — an opportunity to make an album quickly, at home, during the quarantine and at least partially cataloging her experience with it. She announced she’d release the album, tentatively titled How I’m Feeling Now, on 5/15.
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The coronavirus pandemic has forced all of us to put just about everything on hold: No matter what you thought your big plans for life in 2020 were, they’re not happening anytime soon. That’s been felt in the music world, too, with festival and tour cancellations and postponements, and with artists delaying their albums to what once seemed like a plausible post-quarantine summer date. But as we move further into this, and as it becomes clearer that normal life isn’t coming back anytime soon, some artists are changing their plans not to hold off but to make things happen in quarantine. Laura Marling and Fiona Apple both already moved their albums up earlier in the year, each feeling like a gift when we could all use new music to distract us from the news. And then there’s Charli XCX, who quickly announced her plans to record and release an album in just over a month.
How I'm Feeling Now (stylized in all lowercase) is the working title of the upcoming fourth studio album by English singer and songwriter Charli XCX, scheduled for release on 15 May 2020. The album is a "do-it-yourself" collaborative process with Charli XCX involving her fans in the recording process. The recording and title were inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. In April A. G. Cook and BJ Burton were named as the album's executive producers.
The whole project is, by nature, unplanned and in-the-moment. Charli’s been sending material back and forth with her main producers, BJ Burton and A.G. Cook, as well as other potential collaborators. She’s been uploading snippets of unfinished songs and scattered lyrics from her phone, asking fans to weigh in on what they like and what they want to hear finished next. It’s meant to be an open process — an artist not only working on an album for this time, during this time, but also inviting her fans to take part in it. In a way, it gives everyone something to be involved in.
Charli’s plans and vision for it all are coming together in the moment, but she has other goals for quarantine too — she’s joining 100 Gecs for their Minecraft festival later this week, and her album rollout will aim to benefit causes like the World Health Organization and LA Alliance. So far, she’s already shared one song — “Forever” — and has promised another this week. In the meantime, we caught up with Charli via Zoom, the way we all speak with each other these days, to hear about her process making How I’m Feeling Now, her planned Janet Jackson-inspired LP she originally meant to release next, and more.
CHARLI XCX: I’m doing surprisingly well during this time period. I’m in a very lucky position that I can create from home. I’m quarantined with my boyfriend and my two best friends, which I’m so thankful for because I have a lot of friends who are alone and I know they have good days and bad days. Overall, I’m feeling, at the moment, pretty positive. How are you?
STEREOGUM: Yeah, you know, like you were saying, I have work and my partner and I’m just trying to use the time for things I never made time for before. Are you spending all of quarantine working on the album all day, or are you doing fun stuff with your friends or binge-watching anything or something to give yourself a break?
CHARLI XCX: Well, what’s kind of crazy is I guess my neighbors decided they’re going to completely renovate their house during quarantine. So I can’t even record until the evening because there’s just drills all the time. It’s actually quite comical, the amount of noise that’s being made. In the day, I do less recording, that’s when I’m watching TV and I’ve been painting and hanging out. Then I record at night.
You know what, I work quite fast anyways so I’m not super nervous about the deadline, musically. But, I do also want to be in the position where I just don’t write 10 songs and put them all on the album. I want to write, you know, 20 songs and decide the best 10. But also, it’s the visual side of things that needs time. Obviously making videos from afar, like [the “Forever” video], we had to source clips from fans and they sent over like 5,000 clips and we had to go through all of them. When I say “we” it was actually Dan Streit who edited the video, he was amazing. That visual side of things is definitely something that takes more time.
I mean, honestly, I don’t know how long this quarantine is going to go on for, but it feels like it will go for longer than May 15. I didn’t just do the album to fill up my time. I did it because, for me to feel positive, I need to be creative. But also, I kind of wanted to document how I’m feeling and my emotions and experiences during this time. Obviously, it’s something the entire world is going through. I think everybody will have valid feelings and thoughts to contribute to this.
STEREOGUM: In the earlier days of all this, which now kind of feel like ancient history, you were releasing quarantine diaries. You talked about your original plans for albums this year in one of those, but how quickly did it shift to, “I need to make an album now”?
CHARLI XCX: Within the first week, I think. I think I announced it in the second week I was quarantined. In the first week, I was already talking to BJ Burton and A.G. Cook about whether they would feel like they could be involved, because I’m not a producer. I definitely needed some people to produce for me. So the second I found out they were down I was like, “OK, great, we can do it then.” It did happen pretty quickly. I feel like … as an artist, if you have something to say, you need to say it.
The songs on this album aren’t literally about being in quarantine and being isolated, but I think the overall emotion and ethos behind this project is to really like … all of the work I’m creating, whether it be the music and the production and the artwork, it is all indicative of the time we’re in because it’s all that I can do. I’m using the only tools I have around me, the people I can reach out to. It just felt like I kind of had to. It felt like — and don’t take this out of context — for me, and the kind of artist I am, and the kind of fanbase I have, it was kind of the perfect time for me to make something that could comment on this and get everybody involved.
STEREOGUM: You’ve mentioned that “Forever” had been gestating a bit already. But now as you’re writing in this context, do you feel it drawing you to ideas you wouldn’t have tried out before, or do you find yourself focusing on different sides of your personality?
CHARLI XCX: Yeah, definitely. As I mentioned in the beginning, I’m quarantined with my boyfriend, and I write what I experience. So my main subject matter is our relationship, which obviously I’ve written about before, but I guess this time period has allowed our relationship to evolve, actually for the better. It’s really brought us so close together, and it’s made me really realize the connection that I have with this person. I think that’s not really a subject I’ve explored too much in depth, because our relationship was drastically different before the quarantine.
Whilst it’s extremely devastating what’s going on in the world, in my own tiny little minuscule unimportant world, the one good thing this period of isolation has done has made our relationship blossom — in a way that I don’t know it would have had we not been in the same place, every single day, 24/7. That’s a new thing for me to write about. I think it’s also just a new way to work. I’ve always been spontaneous with the way I write, but being so spontaneous with the way I release things, and putting ideas and lyrics out and asking for feedback, that definitely feels like a new skill I’ve learned.
How I'm Feeling Now is Charli XCX's forthcoming album that she's created from scratch during lockdown. She's been collaborating with PC Music's A. G. Cook, 100 gecs' Dylan Brady, Danny L Harle, and more, and has been sharing the entire process - from demos, lyric ideas, screenshots of messages, artwork options, zoom conferences - with fans.
So far, Charli XCX has released two tracks from the LP - "Forever" and "Claws", and on Saturday (1 May), she uploaded four artwork picture options, revealing she plans to release a new song later this week. She also shared some lyrics from the chorus, "baby i love you bad and lately i finally understand that maybe, this feeling that I’ve found might kill me, put me in the ground."