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Our Extended Play (EP)
''Our Extended Play'' is the fifth extended play by Filipino-English singer-songwriter Beabadoobee. The EP was released on 24 June 2021 by independent record label Dirty Hit, and was preceded by the single "Last Day On Earth". The EP was a collaborative effort between Beabadoobee, Matty Healy, and George Daniel, both members of The 1975. Critical reception ''Our Extended Play'' was met with positive reviews upon release. On ''Metacritic'', which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, ''Our Extended Play'' received an average score of 81 based on five reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Thomas Smith of ''NME ''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming and culture website, bimonthly magazine, and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a "Rock music, rock inkie", the ''NME'' would be ...'' wrote that the "tracks offer sharper, more focused songwriting and production that bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beabadoobee
Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus (born 3 June 2000), known professionally as Beabadoobee (; '), is a British singer-songwriter. From 2018 to 2021, she released five extended plays (EPs) under the independent label Dirty Hit: ''Lice'' (2018), ''Patched Up'' (2018), ''Loveworm'' (2019), ''Space Cadet (EP), Space Cadet'' (2019) and ''Our Extended Play (EP), Our Extended Play'' (2021). Her debut studio album ''Fake It Flowers'' was released in October 2020, and received critical acclaim. Her second studio album, ''Beatopia'', was released on 15 July 2022, which spawned the hit "The Perfect Pair". Her third studio album, ''This Is How Tomorrow Moves'', was released on 9 August 2024; it became her first album to peak atop the UK Albums Chart. Beabadoobee served as a supporting act for labelmates The 1975 during several legs of their Music for Cars (concert tour), Music for Cars Tour, as well as American singer Clairo's Immunity Tour, ''Immunity'' Tour and Taylor Swift's the Eras Tour. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced. The sound of indie rock has its origins in the New Zealand Dunedin sound of the Chills, Tall Dwarfs, the Clean and the Verlaines, and early 1980s college rock radio stations who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. The genre solidified itself during the mid–1980s with ''NME''s ''C86'' cassette in the United Kingdom and the underground success of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest (band), Unrest in the United States. During the 1990s, indie rock bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and Radiohead all released albums on major labels and subgenres like slowcore, Midwest emo, slacker rock and space rock began. By this time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirty Hit
Dirty Hit Limited is a British independent record label founded in February 2010 by Jamie Oborne, Chuck Waite, Brian Smith, and former England national football team, England footballer Ugo Ehiogu. Based in London since 2009, it has expanded operations to Los Angeles, Sydney, and Tokyo in 2020. Complex Magazine, ''Complex'' has stated in 2019 that, "Dirty Hit has become known for championing their artists' individuality". History Musician Jamie Oborne went into artist management to provide support to artists through his All On Red Management. When The 1975, Drive Like I Do (later called the 1975), a Manchester-based band he was managing remained unsigned even after meeting with every major label due to their genre-hopping music, Oborne decided to establish his own record label together with Chuck Waite, Brian Smith, and English footballer Ugo Ehiogu. The 1975 signed with the label for 20 pounds. The 1975 and Benjamin Francis Leftwich were the company's first signings, with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fake It Flowers
''Fake It Flowers'' is the debut studio album by Filipino-English singer and songwriter Beabadoobee. It was released under English independent label Dirty Hit on 16 October 2020. Continuing the departure from her previous lo-fi music, lo-fi bedroom pop sound initiated on ''Space Cadet (EP), Space Cadet'', ''Fake It Flowers'' is a more guitar-driven album which recalls "'90s slacker rock" and alternative rock. Beabadoobee announced the release of the album in mid-July 2020 and supported it with the singles "Care", "Sorry", "Worth It", "How Was Your Day?" and "Together". She embarked on a headlining tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland to support the album in 2021. Background and release In early 2020, Beabadoobee achieved international commercial success for the first time in her career after her 2017 single "Coffee" was prominently sampled in Canadian rapper Powfu's 2019 single "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head), Death Bed". The song peaked in the top 20 charts of over 27 countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatopia
''Beatopia'' is the second studio album by Filipino-English singer and songwriter Beabadoobee. It was released on English independent label Dirty Hit on 15 July 2022. It features collaborations with singer PinkPantheress, Matty Healy and George Daniel of the 1975, Cavetown, and Jack Steadman of Bombay Bicycle Club. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 78, based on 16 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In a three-star review, Rachel Aroesti of ''The Guardian'' said that ''Beatopia''s "crowd-pleasing combination of poppy euphoria, laidback cool and often rather generic lyrics tends not to leave a lasting impression of much beyond stylishly executed nostalgia". Arielle Gordon of ''Pitchfork'' criticised the lyrical content of the album as being "often more form than function", though in a mixed review for ''PopMatters'' Jay Honeycomb noted that the ly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 15 to 30 minutes. An EP is usually less cohesive than an album and more "non-committal". An extended play (EP) originally referred to a specific type of 45 revolutions per minute, rpm phonograph record other than 78 rpm standard play (SP) and 33 rpm LP record, long play (LP), but , also applies to mid-length Compact disc, CDs and Music download, downloads. EPs are considered "less expensive and less time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album, and have long been popular with punk and indie bands. In K-pop and J-pop, they are usually referred to as Mini-LP, mini-albums. Background History EPs were released in various sizes in different eras. The earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were Vertic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matty Healy
Matthew Timothy Healy (born 8 April 1989) is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the pop rock band the 1975. He is recognised for his Lyricist, lyricism, Eclecticism in music, musical eclecticism, provocative Persona, onstage persona characterised as performance art, and influence on indie pop music. Born in London and raised largely in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge, Healy formed the 1975 in 2002 with his schoolmates at Wilmslow High School. After signing with independent record label Dirty Hit, the band released #Extended plays, four extended plays before releasing their The 1975 (album), self-titled studio album in 2013. They followed it with ''I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It'' (2016), ''A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships'' (2018), ''Notes on a Conditional Form'' (2020) and ''Being Funny in a Foreign Language'' (2022). Each of their studio albums reached ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 1975
The 1975 are an English pop rock band formed in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in 2002. The band consists of Matty Healy (lead vocals, guitar, primary songwriter), Adam Hann (lead guitar), Ross MacDonald (bass), and George Daniel (drums, primary producer). The band's name was inspired by a page of scribblings found in Healy's preowned copy of ''On the Road'' by Jack Kerouac which was dated "1 June, The 1975". The band members met in secondary school and first performed together as teenagers in 2002, before professionally releasing music in 2012 under the independent label Dirty Hit. From 2012 to 2013, they opened for several major acts and released a series of extended plays''Facedown (EP), Facedown'', ''Sex (The 1975 EP), Sex'', ''Music for Cars'', and ''IV (The 1975 EP), IV''before releasing their UK chart-topping The 1975 (album), self-titled debut album (2013), which included the popular singles "Sex (The 1975 song), Sex", "Chocolate (The 1975 song), Chocolate", and "Robbers (The 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999, and was acquired by Fandom, Inc. in 2022. Metacritic turns each critic and user review into respective percentage score. This can be done either by calculating the score from the rating given or by making a subjective decision based on the review's quality. Before averaging the scores, they are adjusted based on the critic's popularity, reputation, and the number of reviews they have written. The site also includes a summary from each review and links to the original source, using colors like green, yellow, or red to indicate the overall sentiment of the critics. Metacritic won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. It is regarded as the foremost online rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. ''Pitchfork'' is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age. In the 2000s, ''Pitchfork'' distinguished itself from print media through its unusual editorial style, frequent updates and coverage of emerging acts. It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical hipster. It is credited with popularizing acts such as Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. ''Pitchfork'' relocated to Chicago in 1999 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. It expanded with projects including the annual Pitchfork Music Festival (launched in Chicago in 2006), the video site ''Pitchf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clash Music
''Clash'' is a Music magazine, music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom. It is published four times a year by Music Republic Ltd, whose predecessor Clash Music Ltd went into liquidation. The magazine won awards including the Best New Magazine award in 2004 at the PPA Magazine Awards, Magazine of the Year at the 2011 Record of the Day Awards, and others in England and Scotland. History ''Clash'' was founded by John O'Rourke, Simon Harper, Iain Carnegie and Jon-Paul Kitching. It emerged from the long-running Dundee, Scotland-based free-listings magazine ''Vibe''. Re-launching as ''Clash Magazine'' in 2004, it won Best New Magazine award at the PPA Magazine Awards and Music Magazine of the Year at the Record of the Day Awards in 2005 and 2011 respectively. At the turn of 2011, ''Clash'' took on an entirely new look, ditching its previous glossy feel and music-led design for an altogether more artistically-led approach. In 2013, it launched a Smartphone ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beabadoobee EPs
Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus (born 3 June 2000), known professionally as Beabadoobee (; '), is a British singer-songwriter. From 2018 to 2021, she released five extended plays (EPs) under the independent label Dirty Hit: ''Lice'' (2018), ''Patched Up'' (2018), ''Loveworm'' (2019), '' Space Cadet'' (2019) and '' Our Extended Play'' (2021). Her debut studio album ''Fake It Flowers'' was released in October 2020, and received critical acclaim. Her second studio album, ''Beatopia'', was released on 15 July 2022, which spawned the hit "The Perfect Pair". Her third studio album, ''This Is How Tomorrow Moves'', was released on 9 August 2024; it became her first album to peak atop the UK Albums Chart. Beabadoobee served as a supporting act for labelmates The 1975 during several legs of their Music for Cars Tour, as well as American singer Clairo's ''Immunity'' Tour and Taylor Swift's the Eras Tour. She was nominated for the Rising Star Award at the 2020 Brit Awards, and was presente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
