beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves [Red]

This Is How Tomorrow Moves catches beabadoobee shedding her teenage skin, and this pressing spins it on red vinyl inside a gatefold jacket.

Her third studio album arrived in 2024 on Dirty Hit and was quickly hailed as her first grown-up record. The fuzz-pedal confessions of her earlier work are still in her bones, but here the heartbreak gets examined rather than shouted, and the songwriting carries a new kind of patience. Every song comes from her own pen, which helps the whole thing feel like a private conversation.

Rick Rubin produced the album with Jacob Bugden, with sessions that included time at Rubin's Shangri-La studio, and the sound is warm, roomy and refreshingly unfussy. Indie rock sits at the centre, with a soft-focus dream pop glow and a fondness for early 2000s melody running through it. Take a Bite opens things with a confident swing, Coming Home slows the pulse to something tender, and Ever Seen and Beaches show how easily she can make a chorus feel like a secret being passed across a table.

It is the sound of a songwriter completely at ease with where she has landed, and it rewards a full side-to-side listen. On red wax it makes a bright, warm companion to a record about learning how to move forward.