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The Filipino-born, London-raised songwriter Beatrice Laus is just 20, and she grabs at the pre-Britpop signifiers of Nineties indie rock – fuzzy guitar, soft, blurred vocals and the occasional leap into messy volume – with the fervency of someone for whom the sound is still exhilaratingly new on her debut album. On Worth It, the mix of energetic riffing and her sweet, fragile singing voice recall key women in early Nineties alternative music such as Tanya Donnelly of Belly, or occasional Lemonhead Juliana Hatfield. Those who know her from her early acoustic sketch Coffee will notice a return to her early bedroom pop sound on the ghostly How Was Your Day?, but elsewhere, the guitars are cranked and she sounds powerfully confident, striding forwards deeper into the past.