This July, the continuously rising UK singer-songwriter beabadoobee returns with the follow-up to her promising 2019 debut Fake It Flowers with her sophomore effort Beatopia. We’ve already heard a couple of good ones that throw back the times to early millennial pop-rock with “Talk” and dreamy, shruoom-induced bedroom pop in “See You Soon” with 2022′s new class of the alternative pop culture current in mind. “Lovesong” is its latest preview, and it sits with its own self in being lovestruck and saccharine with Beatrice Laus’ wistful aches for when her other isn’t physically near, but consciously close in a warm, mostly-acoustic reflection pool. “I’m running over sentences at times / I better quit dreaming just so I could write / Yet the words to describe you / Aren’t so hard to find / Like a good quote from a book that I’ve memorized,” she sings. Give it a listen below…
beabadoobee’sBeatopia will be released July 15th on Dirty Hit.
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