On her third album, the British-Filipino artist takes accountability for her actions and navigates the twisting path of adulthood On ‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves’, Beabadoobee is exploring a new era of her life. After breaking out as a teenager with lo-fi bedroom pop, her early EPs (like 2018’s lovely ‘Patched Up’) were followed by two stellar full-length records of pop and rock tunes that documented coming of age and young adult years. With ‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves’ Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus continues to share her experience of growing up, and creating this album has, she’s said, helped her understand where she’s at, now aged 24, capturing her journey of “becoming a woman” .
Throughout ‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves’, Bea reflects on her own experiences of womanhood and the complex landscape you negotiate in those early years of adulthood. It’s a time in your life when you look at situations with a new clarity – something she does as she reflects on her own role in – and takes accountability for – past situations. As she’s explained: “It’s accepting that there’s an inevitability of my fault in there too.
” It’s looking at her life through a slightly different lens, like putting on a different pair of glasses and finding the world is both familiar but suddenly a little sharper, a little clearer. Take the record’s lead single ‘Take A Bite’, a growling hunk of ’90s rock on which the artist introspectively reflects on her own.