While Brat summer may have ended, clubbing is forever. Catch up on 2025 electro-pop releases from Slayyyter, Ashnikko, Chrissy Chlapecka, and more.
2024’s most memorable album release, Charli XCX’s Brat, popularized the hedonistic, overdrawn landscape of modern electro-pop music. While the electronic pop of the 2010s prioritized catchy choruses, minimalist beats and intense builds and drops, its 2020s offspring implements harsher production and more fantastical visuals.
In current times, electro-pop is theorized to serve myriad functions. It embraces DIY sentiment, rejecting dominant aesthetic sensibilities or promoting a quasi-academic philosophy. Brat certainly toted a philosophy, and the genre has built an interconnected web of collaborations between primarily queer and trans women. Althought the main similarity between these ten tracks, though, is exciting, danceable music that keeps the club vitalizing.
Ashnikko Itty Bitty
Ashnikko’s third album, Smoochies, feels like a certain relative of Brat. It comes with a highly familiar ethos of embracing ego, chaos and authenticity. Lead single “Itty Bitty” employs a hyper-sexual absurdism with a true ethos of self-fulfillment. A heartbreak track in disguise, Ashnikko juxtaposes, “I know it’ll fix me. I’m doing great right now.” The comedic, personal touches on Smoochies progress the record far past Ashnikko’s simplistic 2021 hit, “Slumber Party,” and into true pop commentary.
Kesha, Slayyyter, and Rose Gray Attention
Kesha’s return to electronic pop generated a myriad of conversations around recession pop and escapism in pop music. However, modern dance music demands more than hollow party anthems. On “Attention,” Kesha delivers thoughtful commentary on fame and her place in the music landscape. Sung in a tone of indifference, “Love it, hate it, leave it, take it / Click on the link to see me naked,” cements that Kesha will always have our attention.
Kim Petras I Like Ur Look
While Petras’ 2024 release, Slut Pop Miami, served as a campy commentary on sexual perversion and a reclamation of Petras’ sexuality as a trans woman. However, the record and its predecessor were inherently controversial in their Dr. Luke-led production. “I Like Your Look,” the third single off of Petras’ upcoming album, was co-produced by Petras, Frost Children, Nightfeelings and Margo XS. The track pivots into Gen-Z nostalgia with an early 2000s sound reminiscent of platform pumps and chunky plastic jewelry. On Petras’ upcoming album, Detour, she promises to return to her disruptive, independent roots with a revitalized sound and spirit.
Slayyyter Cannibalism
Slayyyter has always maintained an aura of grime and glamour. Thus, her 2023 record STARFUCKER yearns for fucking on the dance floor, spending her last on Prada bags and dying at the Chateau. With “Cannibalism,” she simultaneously delves further into glamour and further into grime. “He kisses me, it feels like cannibalism,” soundtracks a gruesome murder at the burlesque club in her self-directed music video and further builds out her ever-evolving, self-designed sonic world.
Chrissy Chlapecka Passionfruit
Chrissy Chlapecka has released a string of singles and an EP this year, each with powerhouse vocals, sharp production and stunning visuals. On “Passionfruit,” she emphasizes each of these elements with theatrical, over-the-top production, combining 80s synth sounds and operatic style. Meanwhile the track’s music video delivers religious iconography turned sapphic and dressed in hot pink glamor.
REYSHA RAMI FREAKEE
Reysha Rami had a prolific 2025. She’s releasing four singles, plus an album, which includes the mega-popular hit “black0ut” featuring Six Sex. The entire album is industrial and dark in both sound and visuals. Track two, “FREAKEE,” is the purest in its sound. “You like it when I get, I get, freaky on the dance floor,” loops over squelchy bass and echoing vocals, forming the perfect club track.
Ayesha Erotica WHORE IDOL
Ayesha Erotica is back and as erotic as ever. Aside from collaborations with Slayyyter, Cobrah, and Chase Icon, Precum marks Ayesha’s first release since 2017. Furthermore, “WHORE IDOL” brings a Britney Spears musicality to Ayesha’s typical electronic sound. It also features production that elevates Ayesha’s classic sound.
Victoria and Ashnikko DADDY
If ever in need of a domination hype track, Ashnikko and Victoria perfected it. A collaboration between the two demanded the ultra-provocative, unrelenting track “DADDY.” “Gag him, freak him, fuck his life up, I’m your daddy now,” Ashnikko sings with a flair of dramatics and a tinge of sincerity. Ashnikko and Victoria truly reside in Daddy Town!
Chase Icon Illegally Blonde
Chase Icon emblemizes the ultimate electro-pop artist, California rasp, lighthearted but sincere lyricism, and I-Own-Everything energy. “Mrs. Iconic / Stepping in Blahnik’s / Bum bitches take note / Bad bitches take notice.” Chase Icon brings simple, sharp, and fun lyricism for the ultimate Ella Woods fantasy.
I’m an writer and photographer currently studying Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Some of my favorite artists are Arctic Monkeys, Faye Webster, and Doja Cat. I take photos and write with Austin Underground of TSTV, and I love creating media with local zines. In my free time, I like to cook, play pickleball, and have picnics with friends.
