Rina Sawayama’s lockdown listening party is back by popular demand. Following the success of last week’s live stream, the electro-pop star is once again inviting listeners to tune in to her YouTube channel this Sunday. The focus of the upcoming stream will be her 2017 breakout EP RINA as well as non-album singles “Cherry” and “Flicker”, in which fans will get to hear the songs alongside a track-by-track breakdown from the artist behind them (set a reminder via the link below).
The Japanese-born, London-raised singer’s previous live stream took place on Sawayama’s YouTube channel (dubbed ‘RINATV’) on the 3rd of May in conjunction with last month’s release of her debut album SAWAYAMA. The stream was also in aid of the WHO’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, to which Google pledged to match every dollar raised by the ‘Pixels’ (the name of Sawayama’s fanbase) with an additional two dollars. The fund as it stands sits at nearly $5 million.
As per the last stream, Sawayama has asked her Pixels to submit their questions for a live Q&A session before the listening party begins. Fans have also been ordered to do their “homework” beforehand by listening to a Spotify playlist of Sawayama’s material she has curated.
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND I’ll be doing a RINA EP LISTENING PARTY this Sunday 5PM BST !
“set reminder” (and enable Youtube notifications) here: https://t.co/5AmrB33zcM
tweet ur Qs #RINALISTENINGPARTY and DO UR HOMEWORK with this SICKENING playlist: https://t.co/ugvvtwBYmr pic.twitter.com/r0H9Fu23O1
— #STREAMSAWAYAMA DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW (@rinasawayama) May 8, 2020
Rina Sawayama’s debut album, SAWAYAMA, was released via Dirty Hit records on the 17th of April and has since received critical acclaim. Review aggregate site Metacritic has given SAWAYAMA an Metascore of 90 out of 100 based on 13 professional reviews, placing it as the second best received record of the year so far (after Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters). You can buy the album here, or stream it and her 2017 EP RINA through Sawayama’s own spotify playlist embedded below:
