Rina Sawayama’s debut album SAWAYAMA has had the kind of response most musicians could only dream of. “Revolutionary”, “pure pop gold” and “thrilling musical adventure” are just some of the plaudits critics have given to the near-universally praised record since it dropped last month.
While pop melodies form the base of Rina’s music, no genre is off limits: R&B, nu-metal, bubblegum pop and house music seamlessly sit side-by-side on SAWAYAMA.
Think early-2000s Britney Spears mashed up with Korn-style thrash guitars. Or peak Destiny’s Child with flourishes of Evanescence-esque emo.
Born in Niigata, Japan in 1990, Rina and her family moved to London when she was five – and it is her embracing of her British-Japanese culture – and the chaotic,
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