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Rina Sawayama’s Album Is a Hit With Critics, But It Wasn’t Eligible for the Mercury Prize: What’s the Problem?
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billboard.comThe hashtag #SawayamaIsBritish has been trending on Twitter in the U.K. Rina Sawayama’s first full-length album, Sawayama, is a hit with critics.
It has a robust 89 rating at Metacritic.com, the review aggregation site. It’s one of only 12 albums from 2020 with such a lofty rating.
Moreover, it’s one of only two albums by British artists with such a high score. The other is Laura Marling’s Songs for Our Daughter, which also has an 89 rating.
Sawayama has even been touted by Sir Elton John, who has a decades-long history as a champion of promising new talent. So you would think that Sawayama would have been a slam-dunk to make the shortlist of 12 albums being considered for the Hyundai Mercury Prize, which is presented to albums by British
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