Rina Sawayama is continuing to prepare the pop world for her sophomore full-length Hold The Girl, dropping September 2 via Dirty Hit.
Its lead single "This Hell" was a defiant and timely defiance of anti-queer religious fundamentalism released just in time for Pride Month dancefloors, and its follow up "Catch Me In The Air" is out today.
From its opening seconds – airy strings, synths, and pan flutes – "Catch Me In The Air" feels like we're stepping outside of the escapism found in the sweaty club for a different, but no less personal, kind of catharsis.
Here, Sawayama crafts an anthemic soft-rock ode to the mentors who steer us from a young age. "Hey there little girl, don't you wanna see the world? / Don't be scared," she sings in the first verse.
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