“I’m not gonna hide myself just because I made an album with Rick Rubin,” says Beabadoobee, but she admits that there was one thing the producer made her do that “really helped my confidence as a musician”

Beabadoobee.

Rick Rubin is known for his unorthodox production methods, and it seems that the latest to experience them is singer-songwriter Beabadoobee (AKA Beatrice Laus), who swapped her bedroom for the spiritual surroundings of Rubin’s Shangri-La studio in Malibu for the recording of her forthcoming third album, This Is How Tomorrow Moves.

The new record is co-produced by Rubin and regular Beabadoobee collaborator Jacob Bugden, and the creative process began with Laus and Bugden working on a collection of demos. However, when Rubin heard them, his response was to make Laus go back and learn each of the songs acoustically so that they could compare the stripped-back versions with her vision for the finished record.