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EVERYTHING = PERSONAL

by Rina Mushonga

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Deceptively buoyant new track Everything = Personal packs a rhythmic punch laced with a cry of resistance. Everything=Personal brings us a song embedded with themes touching on oppression, inequality and feminism. “I wrote this song around the same time as To Be the Birds, these two songs kind of sit together in my mind. The image of the body as something potentially powerful and simultaneously downtrodden really struck me. The title Everything = Personal is inspired by the activist slogan 'the personal is political' which really speaks to how everything is connected, I feel. Injustice isn't something that happens way out there – it stains all of us. It all sounds a bit heavy, haha, but this song is also a song of empowerment and self-actualisation. I find it hard to write without hope – there's always hope in my music.”
The song's rhythm changes, big bass and eclectic pop to dancehall to dub vibes showcase Rina's propensity for mixing things up, shifting gears and bending genres to her will to create something altogether fresh and new.
Co-produced with long time collaborator Frans Verburg, Rina returned to record in Peckham with Brett Shaw (Florence + the Machine, Foals).

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released November 23, 2021

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Rina Mushonga London, UK

London-based, Dutch-Zimbabwean pop innovator. Glittering constellations of warped synths, Afropop rhythms and addictive, soul-lifting vocal harmonies suggesting we’re all specks of dust floating through an infinite expanse.

Pitchfork (8.0) “richly embroidered” + “expansive, ecstatic pop”
Clash Magazine (8.0) “an emphatically creative album”
The Independent (4/5) “a bold, nomadic record”
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