BEABADOOBEE
Our Extended Play [Dirty Hit]
rought to life on the idyllic English countryside, it’s quite fitting that Our Extended Play revels in a summery, effervescent essense of playfulness. Opener is dreamy and wistful, pairing nicely with the subtle lap-steel twang on The jagged riffage and dense, glitchy production on makes it stand out between the two softer cuts, but it doesn’t sound out of place at all. The record is cohesive, but each track illuminates a disparate angle of Beabadoobee’s prismatic musicality, previously demonstrated to good effect on her four previous EPs and her album Fake It Flowers. is the input from Matty Healy and George Daniel (of The 1975), who co-wrote all four tracks on the EP; their folky, pseudo-whimsical indie-pop zest seeps through in different ways, but thankfully never takes the spotlight from Bea’s (actually Beatrice Laus) own idiosyncratic character.
