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10.0
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10.0 |
Q
It's a broad church but Sawayama never feels cluttered or jarring. Print edition only
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10.0
118206
10.0 |
NME
Nu-metal? In 2020? The burgeoning pop star's thrilling – and wildly eclectic – debut album breathes new life into familiar sounds
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9.1
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9.1 |
Consequence Of Sound
A brilliant collection of lyrically complex, refined pop
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9.0
118176
9.0 |
Clash
Raw artistry paired with rich heritage makes for a magnificent, spine-tingling first album for Rina Sawayama
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9.0
118154
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Rina Sawayama is one-of-a-kind, and her debut album certainly isn’t going to be quiet about that
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8.6
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Sputnik Music (staff)
A pop triumph born from conflicted roots
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8.5
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8.5 |
Paste Magazine
Sawayama is an exhilarating reminder of a bygone time when boy bands ruled all and commercialism ruled the boy bands. That era is long gone, but that particular brand of maximalist pop is back, only better now than before
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8.0
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Evening Standard
No genre is off-limits. You can hear the influence of emo-rock Evanescence, nu metal Korn, and pop of early P!nk or Jojo - classic Noughties sounds woven into an intricate and electrifying listen
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
The rising Japanese British star encapsulates the chaos of Y2K Top 40 as she expertly combines nu metal with R&B pop
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8.0
118153
8.0 |
The Skinny
An avant-garde celebration of noughties iconography, from shiny R'n'B to emo-pop
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8.0
118184
8.0 |
DIY
A smart pop record that’s doused in self-awareness
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8.0
118192
8.0 |
The Independent
An audacious album from one of the boldest voices in pop
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8.0
118167
8.0 |
Gigwise
Intimidating? Yes. Enthralling? Absolutely
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8.0
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8.0 |
God Is In The TV
There are no bad tracks on this album and it’s a lot of fun to listen to from start to finish, however it could have been a masterpiece with a little selective editing in the second half
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8.0
118318
8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Sawayama in 2020 as a bona-fide pop star
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7.7
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7.7 |
Pitchfork
The Japanese-British pop singer’s debut is a Y2K flashback that’s as reverent of Evanescence and Korn as it is of Britney and Christina
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7.6
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Beats Per Minute
She’s here to express her excessive, melodramatic, fun-loving, pain-harbouring persona in every single different way she can, without holding anything back – and SAWAYAMA should be celebrated for that
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7.5
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7.5 |
Under The Radar
She exorcises her personal demons amid some of the year’s best dancefloor-filling pop
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7.0
118163
7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
SAWAYAMA is her kaleidoscopic, full-throttle attempt at telling the world exactly who she is. Surely there’s nothing cooler than that?
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