FREAKS ONLY playlist: Oct 10, 2024

Whew, here goes: Charli XCX has delivered yet another iteration of her “definition-of-the-word-zeitgeist” album brat. Any trend piece you read that declared “brat summer is over” lied to you — “brat summer” will never be over, we live here now. And that’s a good thing, especially when the official remix album Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat is giving us sonic gold like Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas on a reworked version of “Mean Girls.” Hear it here, plus: a couple of cuts from Swedish psych ensemble Goat from their brand new self-titled LP, La Femme’s first English language album Rock Machine, and SOPHIE (forever).