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        True Romance

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        True Romance album cover
        01
        Nuclear Seasons
        		 4:41
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        You
        		 3:06
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        Take My Hand
        		 4:26
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        Stay Away
        		 3:47
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        Set Me Free
        		 3:53
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        Grins
        		 3:52
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        So Far Away
        		 3:21
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        Cloud Aura
        		 2:44
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        What I Like
        		 3:01
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        Black Roses
        		 3:28
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        11
        You're The One
        		 3:15
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        How Can I
        		 3:55
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        Lock You Up
        		 3:31
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        Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 47:00

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        Laura Studarus

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        04.19.13
        Heading toward hip-hop pop provocateur territory
        2013 | Label: Atlantic Records

        Charli XCX (née Charlotte Aitchison) may have staked her initial musical claim on electro-Goth turf, but on her debut full-length, the 20-year-old singer/songwriter heads toward hip-hop pop provocateur territory. True Romance is Aitchison’s tribute to primordial longing for love and the enviable comedown when it’s over. Like genre-gobbling kindred spirit Grimes, Aitchison cherry-picks styles highlighting her journey from angst to elation and back again with Siouxsie Sioux synths, Material Girl hooks, and sing-speech akin to M.I.A. basking in the afterglow. Although aiming for an alternate-dimension mainstream takeover (“Nuclear Seasons” is a kohl-lined cousin to Britney Spears’s “Toxic,”), Aitchison has her art-school dropout priorities in place — never resting on one idea long enough for us to get comfortable. Moving between a seductive rap-whisper to a throaty growl with preternatural ease, she never once gives the idea that she’s ever less than in full control.

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