Tate McRae: The One Day (Blue Sky alternate artwork, guava cream pink vinyl) [NETTWERK]

Why you'll love it

A limited guava cream pink pressing with the alternate Blue Sky cover. It gathers the songs that started it all for the Calgary singer, including "One Day" and "Teenage Mind," which between them have been streamed more than half a billion times.

This edition

• Limited edition guava cream pink vinyl
• Alternate Blue Sky artwork
• Nettwerk pressing
• Nine songs over two sides

About the album

Long before the arena tours and the chart-topping singles, Tate McRae was a teenager in Calgary writing songs on piano in her bedroom and posting them online. She was already known as a dancer, but it was her songwriting that caught people off guard: plain-spoken, a little heartbroken and far more grown-up than anyone expected from someone that age. "One Day," which she wrote and uploaded herself, spread around the internet and became the start of everything that followed.

The One Day gathers those early songs, and they hold up beautifully. "Slip" and "Drown" are hushed and close-miked, "Hung Up on You" has the yearning that would become her trademark, and "Teenage Mind" does exactly what the title promises. "Distant" and "Hard to Find" round things out with the same honesty. Fans who found her through the big pop records will hear where it came from, and anyone who has ever written in a diary will recognise the feeling. On guava cream pink vinyl, it is also one of the prettiest records in the rack.

Tracklist

Listen

On Nettwerk, a limited pressing of the early songs collection.