After spending the last month or so promoting the “very 2006” sound of her upcoming sophomore album, Beatrice Laus (better known by her stage name Beabadoobee) has joined forces with Cavetown (or Robin Daniel Skinner if we’re doing this) to release a collaborative single together called ‘Fall In Love With A Girl’. The single also comes with an accompanying music video directed by film director Chris Fowles. The video stars both Laus and Skinner, and sees them both extending the atmosphere the song already exudes by simultaneously painting dolls and doll-houses. It feels incredibly appropriate when you face it, see the video below.

Speaking with NME earlier this month, Laus commented that her new album has, “a lot of different vibes, there’s not one song that sounds the same as the others. I’ve been really getting into a band called Stars, and I’ve always loved Stereolab as well.” Adding, “I’ve been working with my guitarist Jacob and using a lot of teenage engineering, drum machines, mixtures of guitars. It’s been really fun. I don’t know how to explain it, but it sounds very 2006. I feel like this new album is what I am meant to sound like.” As of yet, it is unknown whether or not ‘Fall In Love With A Girl’ will appear on the album, or even when the album will come out. We’re surprisingly light on details at the moment.

But we have heard, in an interview with Consequence of Sound, that it should be dropping “Sometime in 2022”. Amazing. She also elaborated “I think the next record every single song is in a whole completely different world, I’ve never made such different songs in one piece of music before.” Summarising, “It’s the first time where every single song you just can’t compare it to anything else from the record. There’re some songs where it’s just me and some songs where it’s very heavy. We reference a lot of music we were listening to at the time, Jacob and I.” Until the album’s release, however, this Cavetown collab will have to be enough.

This also marks the first release for Cavetown since his latest EP was released last June. Man’s Best Friend gained pretty good reception from critics and fans and launched a substantial North American tour, and a few extra festival slots thrown in for good measure. While there are 2 dates in Austria and The Netherlands, so far there are no plans for an EU/UK leg of the tour. See full tour information here.