What began as excitement for Charli XCX’s breakout album Brat, which came out in June, became fused with the excitement surrounding Kamala Harris’s entry into the presidential race in July. But an autumnal reckoning lay ahead.

The monoculture – a pop event that unifies the masses – is a phenomenon rarely experienced in this fragmented century. But Charli XCX’s sixth album Brat, with its messy ethos and lurid lime-green cover,

Last night, Charli xcx kicked off the UK leg of her Brat tour, after spending the past month in North America on the Sweat tour with Troye Sivan, at Manchester’s Co-Op Live arena.