I guess because I haven’t been a very collaborative artist before, to then work with them so closely… it was quite a big step for me because I’ve always been really anal about the music I write. Is there anything about the project that you think might surprise people? We were so creatively fuelled and really wanted to just let everything out. I obviously went on tour with the ‘75 boys prior to that - we didn’t hang out as much but we always talked about wanting to work together. It was honestly the most wholesome musical experience I’ve ever had. “So when Bea said she wanted to do something that feels like an action movie, that stuck out in my head.”Ĭongrats on the EP, Bea! You made it last summer with Matty and George, right? What was the mood like at the time?
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“We like making music videos that feel like movie trailers and I’d been thinking for a while about this idea of a group of friends who travel from place to place, robbing parties and posing as a touring band,” Alex told i-D. At four tracks long, the EP is a confident and concentrated shot of everything she was feeling last July - a reluctance to grow up, a draw to seek validation in others and a preoccupation with unhealthy vices - as well as the ultimate bridge between Fake It Flowers and album two, which she assures us is on the way.Īny minute now though, Bea will be putting out Our Extended Play, along with an action-packed music video for the powerful and honestly pretty sexy “Cologne”, directed by British duo The Rest aka Lewis Levi and Alex Motlhabane. It was the first time Bea had opened up her intimate songwriting process to outside influence the first time she had the space to experiment with new sounds.
The project is the result of a summer spent locked down together in the Oxfordshire countryside. We called because today she’s releasing her new EP, Our Extended Play, a collaboration with Matty Healy and George Daniel of The 1975 from which she shared the Covid-centric lead single “ Last Day On Earth” at the end of March.
But we didn’t call one of the most successful young musicians in the world right now to talk about her new hat.