Beabadoobee's actual beginning was almost accidental — a teenager in Camden dealing with depression and a recent expulsion from her Catholic school, handed a secondhand guitar by her father as a distraction, who then wrote 'Coffee' and got signed to Dirty Hit off the strength of that one demo. Fake It Flowers, her 2020 debut, earned her a Brit Award nomination before she'd turned twenty, and Beatopia two years later pushed further into stranger, more experimental territory while she opened arenas for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
This Is How Tomorrow Moves, recorded at Shangri-La in Malibu with Rick Rubin in 2024, is the record where critics started calling her an adult artist rather than a teenage discovery — her first album to debut at No. 1 in the UK, and a shift away from the fuzzy teenage-heartbreak sound of her earlier work toward something more early-2000s indie rock than bedroom pop.