Beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves

 

Hey I can do the commercial thing. This isn't really a Pop blog though labels are slippery and unreliable . Generally I lean towards Rock & Roll. It worked for most of the people who hang out in CBGBsback in the day. . Once and for always my favourite scene..

But there was Pop in that scene. Blondie most particularly. Blondie did Pop as well as any band before or since. They also had thir Rock & Roll moments. Beabadoobee is Pop primarily. Bea Kristi, who is as melt in your mouth pretty as Debbie,  is Beabadoobee.

Her new albun, the poetically named This Is How Tomorrow Moves sounds like a record that knows it's time has come, or is coming tomorrow at the very latest. And why shouldn't it. Beabadoobee are signed up as Taylor Swift's support. Isn't that pretty much all it takes these days.

Personally I prefer Bea to Taylor. Taylor is simply too vast, too enormo to process. Or even really have an opinion on. Like the Death Star moving slowlyacross the widescreen at a multiplex. This is all a lot more human. On a smaller and more manageable scale..Even if it was produced with Rick Rubin of all people at the helm.  Bea's voice at times reminded me eerily of Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays. Sunday's Girl ! It was a reminder that endeared me further to the record. 

This Is How Tomorrow Moves is a lot easier to digest than Taylor.  Yjere's always a slight Pavement thing going on. Bea has long had a thing for Syephen Malkmus. Mut in general, this is a sweet and sincere record that emotes It has a heart that pumps, a soul that bleeds. Like the best Pop.Pop product.  I hope it shifts.