BEABADOOBEE
releases debut album
‘FAKE IT FLOWERS’

STREAM / PURCHASE / DOWNLOAD

OUT NOW VIA DIRTY HIT 

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Praise from Australia and New Zealand

“This album is real, raw, and true” – The Music ★★★★

“Arguably one of the most popular songs on triple j right now. Such a great track!” – Richard Kingsmill, triple j

“Kristi tends to herself, nurtures herself, and unflinchingly spotlights her own pain, culminating in the understanding that identifying one’s own trauma can be an empowering experience if you refuse to let it own you.” – Coup De Main

“Beabadoobee proves that she’s more than just your ‘90s loving indie guitarist with a viral song. She’s a banging songwriter with an album featuring her inner thoughts spread across the cutting room floor for your listening pleasure, and it sounds rebellious and effortlessly cool.” – SYRUP

“Beabadoobee allows us into her world of shoe gaze and confessional grunge, while touching on themes of love, loss and the trauma and rage of being a young person in a world that is seemingly always going to be against the youth […] Beabadoobee has done everything on Fake It Flowers to make it an album that will shape the musical tastes of the next generation of young girls.” – The AU Review ★★★ ½

“Her perspicacious alt-pop debut is about to mark her as the Volcano Girl of her generation.” – STACK 

 “Heartfelt indie rock from an artist set to define this year […] Beabadoobee continues to shine so brightly” – Purple Sneakers

 “A new side of beabadoobee, and the opening to her most exciting chapter yet.”– SYN 

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Beabadoobee today releases her highly anticipated debut album FAKE IT FLOWERS via Dirty Hit. As one of the UK’s most exciting recent breakthrough artists, Beabadoobee has been on a stratospheric rise since the release of her first acoustic songs, crafted in her childhood bedroom. A raw, confessional album with real trauma at its heart, FAKE IT FLOWERS is by far Bea’s most mature body of work to date, taking a sonic journey that documents the delicate sounds of her early EPs all the way through to huge jangling guitar anthems that nod to her 90’s grunge heroes.

As she always does, Bea came back to where it all started, her childhood bedroom, to write FAKE IT FLOWERS. “There’s something about the arched walls, and the weird smells, and the Tom Hanks posters, that frickin’ hits – like, as soon as I walk into my bedroom I want to write something.” She took her time there to delve into difficult parts of her history. “Mistakes I made on tour correlated to what happened when I was young,” she explains. “It was like a pattern. I went back to a really dark time.” Writing, she says, helped her through. “[Childhood] was a traumatic time. I’m still trying to get over it, with the help of therapy and with the help of people around me. It’s gonna take a while, but writing this album has helped a lot. Every song is so personal, I’m low-key fucking terrified to show it to the world.”

The album’s lead singles ‘Care’, which has since been streamed almost four million times, and ‘Sorry’, described by The Guardian as a “masterfully restrained expression of regret, eventually pushing sardonic 90s alt-rock into the sky-splitting territory” showcase Bea at her most determined and anthemic, while she tackles personal topics from teenage infidelity on ‘Worth It’ to neglected relationships on the tender ‘How Was Your Day?’. Earlier this week Beabadoobee shared ‘Together’ from the album, an unguarded song about wrestling with the need for affection and comfort but also understanding that it’s impossible to stay in the same place in time forever.

Embracing her imperfections and her mistakes, vulnerability is at the core of FAKE IT FLOWERS, a genuinely raw and unflinching record: “hopefully people will start to see that I’m learning and growing, and that this album represents that,” she adds.

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Born in the Philippines and raised in London, Bea Kristi began recording music as Beabadoobee in 2017. At just 20 years old, Beabadoobee has built her huge, dedicated Gen-Z fan base with her flawless output of confessional bedroom pop songs and DIY aesthetic. Her first track, ‘Coffee’ gathered hundreds of thousands of streams in a matter of days, through a fan-uploaded video, and has since taken on new life as a sample in Powfu’s TikTok and worldwide chart-dominating hit.

Earlier this year Bea took to the road on a UK arena tour with labelmates The 1975, including two sold out shows at London’s O2 arena. The end of 2019 also saw her tour the US with Clairo, headline the sold out Dirty Hit Tour and release her acclaimed third EP Space Cadet, the follow up 2018’s Dirty Hit debut Patched Up and her stardom cementing Loveworm. Her highly anticipated debut album FAKE IT FLOWERS is out now.

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International Praise For BEABADOOBEE

“a thrilling debut from Gen-Z’s newest guitar hero” – 5*, NME

“a love letter to ‘90s alt-rock” – The New York Times

“a rock star in her own right” – Pitchfork

“an unforgettable phenom…” – Rolling Stone

“Fake It Flowers is… One of the most anticipated [albums] of 2020” – Consequence of Sound

“swirling fuzz and spiraling emotion…” – New Yorker

“Intimate, close confessional vocals matched with stargazy guitars… a DIY sense of rawness, unaffected by industry bullshit or concerns over streaming algorithms” – i-D

“[‘Care’] has a relatable sentiment in a song that’s full of delicious, low-key, light-grunge angst. Don all the ’90s-inspired clothing you own, draw in lipstick on your bedroom mirror, and crank this one up on the Bluetooth record player… warm and fuzzy, deeply nostalgic, and ultra-cathartic, all at once.” – Teen Vogue

“[‘Care’] has the London artist embracing full-blown dreampop bliss. Beabadoobee provides a score to the lives of her teenage fans… she gives ’90s alt-rock a cinematic sheen” – The Fader

“Dirty Hit star Beabadoobee goes even more ’90s revival than she’s done previously on “Worth It” — if that’s even possible. Liz Phair would be proud.” – Paper Magazine

“riding the ’90s-nostalgic line between roughshod indie and gleaming pop…” – Stereogum

“languid vocals, pointed songwriting chops and jangly, grunge-inspired sound…” – Billboard

“touching and emotionally real…” – Noisey

“beabadoobee has already evolved in profound ways.” – NPR

“Phenomenal” – Vogue UK

“Bea takes your mind somewhere else when you desperately need a moment to escape from reality…” – HighSnobiety

“On “Worth It,” Beabadoobee’s voice is airy and reminiscent of indie peers Clairo and Soccer Mommy… Yet, it takes on a life of its own” – Paste

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Tracklisting

Care
Worth It
Dye It Red
Back To Mars
Charlie Brown
Emo Song
Sorry
Further Away
Horen Sarrison
How Was Your Day?
Together
Yoshimi, Forest, Magdalene

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