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You're listening to sound opinions and this week we'll be talking about video game

music with our pal, L.A. Times critic Todd Martins. I'm Jim D. Ruggadas.

Then I'm Greg Cutt, but first we review some new music from Rina Samoyama and Brian Eno.

That is a little bit of a track called This Hell by Rina Samoyama, her new album Hold The Girl.

Greg, this is fascinating artists. Born in Negata in 1990, moved to Northwest London,

Japanese English artist. Pop Forest from day one when she began recording her first single 2013

Sleeping in Waking, a self-titled debut in 2020. A lot of fans all over the map,

genre-wise of her music that she's collaborated with, from Charlie XCX to Elton John,

from Lady Gaga to, you know, you name it. This is an artist who has garnered a lot of attention.

This album has been highly anticipated for some time. Let us dive in. Second studio album by

Japanese British singer Rina Samoyama. This is a track called Frankenstein. We'll come back and we

will give our opinions of Hold The Girl.

That is Frankenstein from the new Rina Samoyama album Hold The Girl. I'm glad you chose that track,

Jim. I love that track as well. I love it. That hook. I don't want to be your monster anymore.

You know, and the videos, I don't often like follow up a single and look at the video,

but she's going through, you know, she's this mousey young woman at first and then the mirror

monster jumps out and takes over the club. It's fun. She's all over the, I mean, if you like that

song, don't hold your breath because, you know, the other 12 are completely different. I mean,

it's 13 songs and jumping from style to style to era. You would literally, if you just

pick two songs randomly, not even recognize it first, they were from the same album.

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