Beatopia

Beatopia
Studio album by
Beabadoobee
Released15 July 2022
Genre
Length45:44
LabelDirty Hit
Producer
  • Beabadoobee
  • Jacob Bugden
  • Iain Berryman
Beabadoobee chronology
Our Extended Play
(2021) 		Beatopia
(2022) 		This Is How Tomorrow Moves
(2024)
Singles from Beatopia
  1. "Talk"
    Released: 24 March 2022
  2. "See You Soon"
    Released: 25 April 2022
  3. "Lovesong"
    Released: 26 May 2022
  4. "10:36"
    Released: 15 June 2022
  5. "The Perfect Pair"
    Released: 26 September 2022[1]

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

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.6/10[2]
Metacritic78/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Arts Desk6/10[5]
Dork[6]
The Guardian[7]
Kerrang![8]
NME[9]
Paste7.4/10[10]
Pitchfork7.6/10[11]
PopMatters6/10[12]
The Telegraph[13]

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".[3] 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".[7] Arielle Gordon of Pitchfork criticised the lyrical content of the album as being "often more form than function",[11] though in a mixed review for PopMatters Jay Honeycomb noted that the lyrics deal with the challenges of human intimacy.[12] In a more positive review, Kerrang! characterised Beatopia as a progression from Beabadoobee's debut album with "more diversity, more complexity and less care paid to the genres it falls within", marking an artistic evolution.[8] Similarly, Hollie Geraghty writing for NME sees "the seeds that were planted in Fake It Flowers not only blossom, but inhabit an entirely different world" with Beatopia.[9] In a mixed review for The Telegraph, Kate French-Morris wrote, "Kristi's music may sound fresh to the ears of those born this side of the millennium, but it's rehashed, scrubbed-up, 1990s alt-rock to everyone else, so well-cribbed she sounds like a fictional artist dreamed up to soundtrack a teen movie."[13] Writing for The Line of Best Fit, John Amen scored the project 8/10 and commented, "If Fake Flowers featured Laus toeing the indie line, at times self-deprecatingly, Beatopia is her unapologetic leap into mega viability."[14]

Track listing

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All tracks written by Beabadoobee and Jacob Bugden, except where noted.

Beatopia track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Beatopia Cultsong"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
2:31
2."10:36"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
3:15
3."Sunny Day"
2:40
4."See You Soon"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
3:26
5."Ripples"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
3:07
6."The Perfect Pair"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
2:57
7."Broken CD"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
2:50
8."Talk"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
2:38
9."Lovesong"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
4:05
10."Pictures of Us"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
4:39
11."Fairy Song"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
2:44
12."Don't Get the Deal"
3:40
13."Tinkerbell Is Overrated" (featuring PinkPantheress)
3:48
14."You're Here That's the Thing"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Healy
  • Laus
  • Bugden
  • Berryman
3:18
Total length:45:44
Beatopia – Japan edition (bonus track)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
15."Back to Mars (Full Band Version)"LausBerryman1:45
Total length:47:48
Beatopia (The Antidote Edition)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
15."10:36 (Antidote Live Session)"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
Berryman2:27
16."See you Soon (Antidote Live Session)"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
Berryman3:07
17."The perfect pair (Antidote Live Session)"
  • Laus
  • Bugden
Berryman1:59
18."The Adults Are Talking (Antidote Live Session)"Julian CasablancasBerryman3:05
Total length:56:37

Notes

  • Song names styling:
    • "The Perfect Pair", "Broken CD", "Fairy Song", and "Tinkerbell Is Overrated" are stylised in all lowercase.
    • "Sunny Day", "Don't Get the Deal", and "You're Here That's the Thing" are stylized in sentence case.
    • "See You Soon" is stylised as "See you Soon"

Personnel

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Musicians

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  • Beabadoobee – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion
  • Jacob Bugden – guitar, programming, synthesizers, keyboards, bass, backing vocals, percussion, flute, drums, organ, mandolin, piano, string arrangements
  • Eliana Sewell – bass, percussion, backing vocals
  • Luca Caruso – drums, percussion
  • Jim Reed – drums, percussion
  • Iain Berryman – programming, synthesizers, percussion, Wurlitzer, guitar, bass, piano, gomet, organ, glockenspiel
  • Matthew Healy – vocals, guitar
  • Jack Steadman – guitar, bass, programming
  • Finlay Dow-Smith – drum programming, bass synthesizer
  • PinkPantheress – vocals
  • Robin Skinner – backing vocals
  • George Daniel – synthesizers, programming
  • Georgia Ellery – strings, string arrangements
  • Gareth Lockrane – flute
  • Drew Dungrate-Smith – claps
  • Andrea Cozzaglio – metal shutter
  • Ben Baptie – programming
  • Molly Hayward – percussion, backing vocals
  • Soren Harrison – percussion, backing vocals, claps
  • Amir Hossain – claps
  • Calum Harrison – percussion, backing vocals

Technical

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  • Ben Baptie – mixing
  • Joe LaPorta – mastering
  • Jacob Bugden – engineering
  • Iain Berryman – engineering
  • Drew Dungrate-Smith – engineering
  • Sophie Ellis – mixing assistance
  • Claude Vause – additional engineering
  • Andrea Cozzaglio – additional engineering
  • Jonathan Gilmore – additional engineering (tracks 4, 9, 14)
  • Joseph Bodgers – additional engineering (track 12)

Charts

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Chart performance for Beatopia
Chart (2022) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[15] 19
Irish Albums (OCC)[16] 50
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[17] 64
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[18] 89
Scottish Albums (OCC)[19] 3
UK Albums (OCC)[20] 4
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[21] 1
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[22] 2
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[23] 32
US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[24] 29

References

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  1. ^ "Triple A Future Releases". All Access. Archived from the original on 15 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Beatopia on Any Decent Music?". Any Decent Music?. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Beatopia by baebadoobee Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic.
  4. ^ Phares, Heather. "Beatopia on Allmusic". Allmusic. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  5. ^ Green, Thomas H (18 July 2022). "Album: Beabadoobee - Beatopia". The Arts Desk. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  6. ^ Ackroyd, Stephen (13 July 2022). "Beabadoobee - Beatopia". Dork. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  7. ^ a b Aroesti, Rachel (15 July 2022). "Beabadoobee: Beatopia review – stylish but unmemorable pop nostalgia". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  8. ^ a b Wilkes, Emma (15 July 2022). "Album review: beabadoobee – Beatopia". Kerrang!. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  9. ^ a b Geraghty, Hollie (14 July 2022). "Beabadoobee – 'Beatopia' review: a weightless journey through a dreamlike world". NME. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  10. ^ Bennet, Eric (13 July 2022). "beabadoobee Comes Into Her Own on Beatopia". Paste. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  11. ^ a b Gordon, Arielle (18 July 2022). "Beatopia". Pitchfork. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  12. ^ a b Honeycomb, Jay (21 July 2022). "Beabadoobee's Ascent From Indie Starlet To Pop Queen on 'Beatopia' Is Hot and Cold". PopMatters. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  13. ^ a b French Morris, Kate (15 July 2022). "Lizzo strikes pop gold, and Mabel has a big night out – the week's best albums". The Telegraph. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  14. ^ "Beabadoobee hones and expands her aesthetic with Beatopia". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  15. ^ "ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. 25 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  16. ^ "Official Irish Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  17. ^ "ビーバドゥービーの作品". Oricon. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  18. ^ "Billboard Japan Hot Albums – Week of July 20, 2022". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  19. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  20. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  21. ^ "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  22. ^ "Beabadoobee Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  23. ^ "Beabadoobee Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  24. ^ "Beabadoobee Chart History (Top Album Sales)". Billboard. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
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