A decade or so ago, Charli XCX exploded out of the gate with her contributions to Icona Pop’s “I Love It,” Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” and her own “Boom Clap.” Since then, she’s leaned into more experimental dance-pop, head-faking whether she wanted to be bigger or cooler or both or neither. The Brat album delivers on all of the above, and while I’m nowhere near cool enough to parse the French-disco-hyper-glitch subgenres here, it all slaps, careening from self-doubt to ridiculous boasts. The opener, “360,” lays it all out there, as Charli bounces across a spare, singsongy beat with hip-hop-style delivery, landing on “If you love it, if you hate it / I don’t fucking care what you think.”

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