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beabadoobee
Fake It Flowers · 2020
beabadoobee, born Beatrice Laus in the Philippines and raised in London, began releasing hushed, lo-fi bedroom-pop songs while still a teenager, catching wider attention when one of her earliest tracks was later sampled on a global streaming hit. Signed to Dirty Hit, the label behind the 1975, she moved quickly from four-track intimacy toward a fuller, guitar-driven sound steeped in 1990s alternative rock and shoegaze.
Beatopia, her second album, arrived in 2022, named after an imaginary world she'd invented as a child and abandoned as she got older before reclaiming it as the record's organizing idea. She has continued expanding her sound since, including a 2026 standalone single made with the Marías that pushed further into dream-pop atmosphere outside the album cycle entirely. Her catalog now reads as a fairly rapid education in public, each release audibly further from where the last one left off.