Beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit) review : Rising star comes of age, writes ADRIAN THRILLS By Adrian Thrills Published: 02:00 BST, 9 August 2024 | Updated: 02:00 BST, 9 August 2024 e-mail View comments BEABADOOBEE: This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit) Verdict: Rising star comes of age Rating: From Charli XCX’s Brat, released in June, to last month’s Vertigo by electronic pop star Griff, the summer has been illuminated by compelling new solo albums from British women. On the evidence of her latest offering, Beabadoobee is now joining the party. The 24-year-old Philippines-born singer, real name Beatrice Laus, isn’t exactly a new face.
Having moved to London when she was three, she began posting songs on YouTube in her teens. Her first album, 2020’s Fake It Flowers, written in a childhood bedroom festooned with Tom Hanks posters, was derivative — of 1990s rock, grunge and Britpop — but full of potential. Beabadoobee fulfils much of that youthful promise on This Is How Tomorrow Moves.
Made with rock and rap producer Rick Rubin at his Shangri-La studio in Malibu, her third album shows the increasing depth of her songwriting and widens her appeal by augmenting her bracing indie-rock with touches of jazz and folk. Many of the 14 tracks bear the stamp of Rubin’s stripped-back approach. The producer, who has worked with the Beastie Boys, Metallica and Johnny Cash, is known for avoiding fancy trickery and focusing instead on the studio performance, a.