Winter Wonderland

Brit Award nominee Beabadoobee stirs the Christmas spirit with a wistful cover of ‘Winter Wonderland’. Her reworked version has been released exclusively on Apple Music along with festive renditions from Arlo Parks and James Blake.

Carried by the steady strum of her guitar, the Filipino-British singer adapts keys and cadences across the 1934 classic. She swaps her lo-fi indie sound for a shimmering orchestra at Abbey Road, adding subtle elements that maintain her hazy, acoustic aesthetic. That’s not forgetting her striking vocal performance. Gleeful and dreamy, Beabadoobee’s voice has the awe-inspired playfulness of musical theatre. It holds comfortably above a backing choir in the song’s final leg, eventually melting away with the final line.

A true rising star, the Dirty Hit prodigy shows that her skills extend far beyond bedroom pop tracks. Though she visited Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland in her ‘Dance With Me’ video last year, this time’s she’s really made it snow.