New Music Friday – August 9, 2024

August 9, 2024 Ben Pagani

It’s New Music Friday. This week we’ll take an in-depth look at the biggest release out now. Read on to view a full list of other new music that dropped. Let’s get straight to the goods.

The Best of New Music Friday:

beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves

Enjoyable instant pleasures in life include digging into ice cream cones, immersing into a bubble bath and listening to beabadoobee’s third album This Is How Tomorrow Moves. The artist, whose real name is Beatrice Laus, traveled to Shangri-La in Malibu and recorded the album with producer Rick Rubin. She wrote every single one of the 14 songs on her latest record. She put out the LP on English independent pop label Dirty Hit.

The Filipino-born English singer gets mischievous immediately, singing “I love to watch it bleed,” on the opening tune “Take A Bite.” This first song gives a hint that beabadoobee will be playing with every tool she can find on This Is How Tomorrow Moves. There are pianos, both acoustic and stretchy electric guitars, warping vocal effects and a palatable soft rock drum beat. The whole album isn’t all filled with cunning attitude lyrics. She sings to a new lover between the twinkling strums of “Everseen.”

It’s easy to tell beabadoobee is in her happy place on this new record. She’s been candid about the pressures she’s faced with more and more fans mounting up to watch her perform and buy her records. Nearly everyone and their mother have heard her most popular song “death bed (coffee for your head).” She recently opened for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. But beabadoobee is now able to see over that. In an interview on Apple 1 Music with Zane Lowe, she said recording in Rubin’s studio was the happiest musical experience she ever had. That’s high praise for someone who’s experienced several musical mountaintops.

This Is How Tomorrow Moves is filled with sweet delectable bites of soft pop. It’s got some synths snuck in to give a new element. Often though, beebadoobee sticks to her instruments and uses her voice to guide them. It’s the classic method. Take the album’s turning point, “Girl Song,” for example. The track is just beabadoobee and her piano. She sings its hooking line “Day like no other, and just another bad day” with a rawness that carries the album into its second half. She later adds some bossa nova flair and a capella.

Beabadoobee took just over two years to release This Is How Tomorrow Moves. Music release cycles are getting boring, especially when timeless sounds like this new record will undoubtedly be appreciated for a long time. Even though everyone should wish that Beabadoobee returns with more music again soon, let’s just enjoy how this record is moving right now.

New Music Friday Top Picks:

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flight B741 [(P)Doom]

Larry June – Doing It for Me [Empire]

Latto – Sugar Honey Iced Tea [RCA]

Mavi – Shadowbox [Mavi 4 Mayor Music]

Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding – Milton + Esperanza [Concord]

Osees – Sorcs 80 [Castle Face]

Oso Oso – Life Till Bones [Yunahon Entertainment LLC]

Peter Cat Recording Co. – Beta [Muddy Water]

Polo G – Hood Poet [Columbia]

Ravyn Lenae – Bird’s Eye [Atlantic]

Tune-Yards – Nikki Nack (Deluxe) [4AD]

Which of these tracks from New Music Friday will you add to your favorite playlists today? Any we missed? Let us know in the comments or on Instagram!

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Ben Pagani

Music Projects Manager at Beyond The Stage Magazine

Ben is a music journalist living and working in Chicago. They joined Beyond The Stage as an intern and have stayed on the staff for several years. Now serving on the editorial board, Ben is proud to be BTS' Music Projects Manager, coordinating coverage between international record labels and our staff. Ben has interviewed, photographed and written about bands from across the world. Ben has lived all over the United States working in television and media. They are an Emmy Award-winning writer. Ben can be found spinning records as 'DJ Wearing Sunglasses' in clubs and basements across the US.