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- Summary: The debut full-length studio release for the Japanese-British pop artist features production from Clarence Clarity, Nate Company, Bram Inscore, and Nicole Morier.
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- Record Label: Dirty Hit
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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Apr 16, 2020From the raucous nu-metal to glittering R&B, ‘SAWAYAMA’ is an honest, genre-exploding self-portrait.
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Q MagazineApr 15, 2020Perspicacious and personal, cool and colossally enjoyable, Sawayama is both a triumph over trauma and a paean to the power of effervescent pop in practically all its forms. [Jun 2020, p.98]
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May 4, 2020SAWAYAMA appears poised to be one of the best pop albums of the year and sets Sawayama up as a pop force to be reckoned with.
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Apr 16, 2020It’s a smart pop record that’s doused in self-awareness but still direct in its assertiveness - and never not compelling.
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Apr 17, 2020Combining crunchy nu-metal guitar riffs with a penchant for early-aughts R&B-pop production in the vein of Aaliyah and ‘NSync, Sawayama sounds like Britney Spears’ Blackout by way of Korn — and it inexplicably works.
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Apr 16, 2020Rina’s mini album may have marked her out as one to watch, but SAWAYAMA stakes her claim as one of the boldest voices in pop today.
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Apr 30, 2020The album is a complicated picture of Swayama’s past, present, and future. It is rare to see a debut album with such a fully realized voice and vision behind it. What’s more, she exorcises her personal demons amid some of the year’s best dancefloor-filling pop.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 320 out of 337
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Mixed: 6 out of 337
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Negative: 11 out of 337
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Apr 22, 2020
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Apr 17, 2020
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Apr 20, 2020
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Jul 30, 2020
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Apr 26, 2021Absolutely amazing... Best album of 2020... hopefully she gets more attention soon because she's deserves it greatly
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Feb 19, 2021
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Sep 25, 2020Overrated, the same songs that other artists, nothing new, I don't understand why people like her music
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