electro-folk and chamber pop album driven by pianos and guitars
lyrical solipsism and meandering fragmentations are tied together by a remarkable poem written by Hilary Thomas expressing the sensuous realities of building community in a new country
written and demoed by John Lennon in the mid/late 1970s
and keyboardist Phillip Tubbs
Rina Sawayama - Sawayama (Gold) sunshine pop electro-folk and chamber pop albumLP, Gold Vinyl Dirty Hit (2020) EU SAWAYAMA is the debut album from Japanese pop auteur Rina Sawayama an exploration of identity, family, gender and sexuality, set to a backdrop of future facing, genre splicing pop music. Championed by Pitchfork, The Fader, New York Times, The Guardian, Vice and more, SAWAYAMA is an exciting first step from an artist unafraid to push pop into new realms.