Listen: BEA Unveils Debut Track, ‘Breadwinner’

Details are scarce on BEA. She’s a 22-year-old from Amsterdam, born to British parents. She’s not very good at taking baths either. What she instead specialises in is subtle, playful pop, consisting of barely-there percussion, easy-does-it pianos and vocals that layer on top of each other forming a monstrous swarm.

Debut track ‘Breadwinner’ has BEA skewing every speck of convention she comes across, declaring ‘I am a breadwinner’ in ultra-assured fashion. A stirring, inquisitive debut more than anything else, it suggests big things without showing off to the point of collapse.

BEA, ‘Breadwinner’: