TUNES // Rina Sawayama – XS

Post by Misha

Take a deep breath before pressing play, you’ll need it. We’re front row and the safety bar just came up in the middle of the ride. A whiplash-inducing ascent, startling propulsion from verse to chorus. Blinding, bejeweled production, which sparkles violently in the light like the diamond crusted second skin that Britney wore in Toxic (you remember) and gyrates closer and closer until it is on top of you, until the sharp edges of five thousand costume-grade rhinestones press and grind into your exposed skin. Press and grind until you are covered in blood and chunks of your own flesh, but still grinning wild eyed and asking for more.

We’ve been eagerly anticipating Rina Sawayama’s debut album since her 2017 EP. Stream the astonishing SAWAYAMA here.