Fake It Flowers

Fake It Flowers

by Beabadoobee
Fake It Flowers

Fake It Flowers

by Beabadoobee

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Overview

With each piece of music she releases, Beabadoobee's Bea Kristi takes huge steps forward -- which is saying something considering that the first song she ever wrote, 2017's "Coffee," quickly became a viral hit. Though that single's whispery simplicity won her an audience, it didn't capture the sound in her head. On the Loveworm and Space Cadet EPs, she enlisted a full band and producer Pete Robertson and looked back to the '90s, an era whose moods and sounds she digs deeper into on her debut album, Fake It Flowers. It's easy to understand why Beabadoobee finds that era so inspiring, even though it was over before she was born. Those years were a heyday for outspoken young women, whether they were musicians like Veruca Salt and Juliana Hatfield or fictional characters like My So-Called Life's Angela Chase (one of Fake It Flowers' finest moments, the swirling yet barbed "Dye It Red," sounds like it could be about her). Like many members of Generation Z, Beabadoobee doesn't just blur the boundaries between indie and mainstream, she erases them entirely. Back in the day, Fake It Flowers' glossy production might have seemed too slick, but it blends together everything in Kristi's songs -- gliding shoegaze, jangly indie, grungy catharsis, and ambitious string arrangements -- into something fresh. Beabadoobee interprets these sounds more holistically here than she did on her EPs, which playfully dropped names and influences in ways that wouldn't have worked as well on a full-length. Though "Together" and "Yoshimi, Forest Magdalene" deliver more of Space Cadet's irresistible, candy-coated grunge-pop, Beabadoobee covers much more musical ground on Fake It Flowers. Her singing is more expressive than ever on the gossamer verses and sneering choruses of "Care," the bright, brash declaration of independence that kick-starts the album. There's a newfound fury to the thundering "Charlie Brown" and "Sorry," a seemingly fragile ballad that invites comparisons to the Sundays and the Cranberries, then explodes them with an eruption of guitars. She makes room for the intimacy of the "Coffee" days on sketches like "How Was Your Day" but also on "Horen Sarrison," a love song where sweet lyrics ("You remind me of the pavement after the rain") drift into more unsettling ones ("I want you to feel uncomfortable"). This gift for distilling complex emotions into relatable songs is just as vital to Beabadoobee's music as her rapidly evolving sound, and both shine on Fake It Flowers. ~ Heather Phares

Product Details

Release Date: 10/16/2020
Label: Dirty Hit
UPC: 5060257961788
Rank: 2121

Tracks

  1. Care
  2. Worth It
  3. Dye It Red
  4. Back to Mars
  5. Charlie Brown
  6. Emo Song
  7. Sorry
  8. Further Away
  9. Horen Sarrison
  10. How Was Your Day?
  11. Together
  12. Yoshimi, Forest Magdalene

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Beabadoobee   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Joseph Rodgers   Vocals (Background)
Matt Calvert   Guitar,Guitar
Pete Robertson   Bass,Drums,Guitar,Percussion,Synthesizer,Vocals (Background)
Guy Button   Violin
Louis Semlekan-Faith   Drums,Percussion
Will Harvey   Viola
Elena Abad   Violin
Eliana Sewell   Bass
Gavin Kibble   Cello
Jacob Bugden   Guitar

Technical Credits

Robin Schmidt   Mastering
Joseph Rodgers   Engineer,Producer,Programming
Pete Robertson   Producer,Programming,String Arrangements
Jonathan Gilmore   Mixing
Callum Harrison   Photography,Assistant Engineer
Beabadoobee   Composer
Chris Fraser   A&R
Kumiko Sekiguchi   Photography
James Ronkko   Artwork,Photography
Josh Ager   Assistant Engineer
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