album Rina Sawayama - 'Hold the Girl'

[Von]

The 1-2-3 PUNCH of Holy-Your Age-Imagining wow 

[brooklyndaddy]

I wish the vocals were further forward in the mix and the instrumentals less loud because Your Age and Imagining have AMAZING vocals production but feels very 2012 with how it’s all mixed. It all sounds very claustrophobic and nothing really hits because it feels like a war for the sonic focus 

Edited September 16, 2022 by brooklyndaddy

[Buddy]

She really saved the best for album tracks huh

[Buddy]

Your Age is so ******* good  

[Achilles.]

Have to agree with the complaints about the sound mixing. 
 

Other than that, I feel like the album is… fine, but the lyricism feels a lot more generic than most of her past music? 
 

This Hell is legit one of the worst written pop songs in recent history. I hate it so much.

Your Age has an interesting concept, but the song doesn’t really work at all. 
 

Holy, Frankenstein, and Phantom are the  standouts for me. Those are the songs where everything is just right. Lyrics, vocals, production, conceptual clarity; the songs really came together. 
 

Send My Love To John is very touching and unique, and well written, but it’s not something I see myself listening to much.

 

She got the start and finish just right. Minor Feelings and To Be Alive are very good. 
 

I won’t pretend the album isn’t a let down, but it’s not nearly as bad as I feared it would be after the horror of This Hell and decent-but-underwhelming CMITA and HTG. 

[ryoncé]

of course Flavor of the Month sounds better than 90% of the actual album....

 

why are artists always like this 

[Supervillain]

The final choruses on this album are beyond, the way it all comes together to explode  

[Jagger]

1 hour ago, flower moon said:

NO idea. But on the topic of smouldering douches, do we know why the album cover is what it is? very curious

Beats me  it's awful. Serving lady Deathstrike morphed with an enema 

[Buddy]

Forgiveness might actually be my favorite 

[leightxn]

Imagining  love it. I agree with comments on here re the mixing. 

 

I just love how she loves all genres of music, the sprinkle of different sounds in each of the tracks is so interesting to me. The drums at the end of Frankenstein are mad.

 

I'm not as disappointed as I thought I was going to me. Still excited to see her on tour in October.

Edited September 16, 2022 by leightxn

[Communion]

 

The album shoot is so good. 

[Psycho]

Holy is one of her best songs.

 

The album is a step down tho...

[Alldeezy]

The way the album gets better and better each track!

 

I REALLY Love This Hell, Holy, Frankenstein!

 

this is my first Rina album ive ever listen too and loved it first listen so i'll be giving her other stuff a go for sure! if its a lot like this album! I will probably love it.

[Alldeezy]

okay rankings 

 

AMAZING

Holy

Frankenstein

Forgiveness

This Hell

 

Good

Catch Me In The Air

Your Age

Imagining

Hurricanes

 

Mid

Hold The Girl

To Be Alive

 

Didn't Feel It / Skip 

Send My Love To John

Minor Feelings

Phantom 

 

[Fuecoco]

MINOR FEELINGS - 4

HOLD THE GIRL - 7

THIS HELL - 9

CATCH ME IN THE AIR - 9

FORGIVENESS - 4

HOLY (TIL YOU LET ME GO) - 5

YOUR AGE - 2

IMAGINING - 7

FRANKENSTEIN - 6

HURRICANES - 8

SEND MY LOVE TO JOHN - 6

PHANTOM - 10

TO BE ALIVE - 4

 

81/130 - 63% - D

[Nikko]

wow.. IMAGINING is IT. perfect song

[Ice Cream Skies]

On 5/18/2022 at 3:13 PM, Ice Cream Skies said:

The cover is serving anal douche and the single is serving Born This Way C-side. Off to a disappointing start.

I still 100% stand by this, btw.  And I really like the album. I said what I said.

[Delirious]

still havent listened to the album in full. there's too much music this week

 

but holy is a standout

[Harrier]

I listed to this and Sawayama back to back and I actually might like this better? The way I'm switching. 

[fountainsofyouth]

mixing issues aside, she SLAYED with this one. not as good as SAWAYAMA in terms of genre/lyrics but this is a solid follow-up. the 1-2-3-4-5 punch of forgiveness, holy, your age, imagining, and frankenstein is unstoppable   she said happy bisexual visibility month with the religious trauma sprinkled throughout, damn 

[Harrier]

2 minutes ago, fountainsofyouth said:

mixing issues aside, she SLAYED with this one. not as good as SAWAYAMA in terms of genre/lyrics but this is a solid follow-up. the 1-2-3-4-5 punch of forgiveness, holy, your age, imagining, and frankenstein is unstoppable   she said happy bisexual visibility month with the religious trauma sprinkled throughout, damn 

id include CMITA as a 1-2-3-4-5-6 punch bc I also stan that, but yes, this is an incredible run of tracks  

I think its a shame the singles didint quite hit bc people are missing out on the true gems of the record

[Nikko]

mixing is indeed weird and I noticed that when Catch me in the air dropped. interested to see how it sounds on vinyl

Edited September 16, 2022 by Nikko

[fountainsofyouth]

4 minutes ago, Harrier said:

id include CMITA as a 1-2-3-4-5-6 punch bc I also stan that, but yes, this is an incredible run of tracks  

I think its a shame the singles didint quite hit bc people are missing out on the true gems of the record

okay that's fair - it's definitely a run of the ages! and I completely agree, the unreleased material hits far harder than the singles. hope the singles didn't hurt the album's success ugh 

[ahauntingnearu]

3 hours ago, flower moon said:

NO idea. But on the topic of smouldering douches, do we know why the album cover is what it is? very curious

 

 

14:43

[Harrier]

4 minutes ago, Nikko said:

mixing is indeed weird and I noticed that when Catch me in the air dropped. Will see how it sounds on vinyl

can confirm it sounds better on vinyl, but the issue isn't entirely fixed sadly