Sarina explodes on to the scene with her new pop-punk EP Break Out!! — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
The Tokyo artist unleashes a cascade of thought-provoking messages on this seven-song set, which includes the previously released singles Living In The Moment and Skip A Beat, along with angsty and catchy new single Why Am I So Sad?!
Produced by Grammy winner Erik Ron (I Prevail, Staind, Bush) and Escape The Fate guitarist Kevin Thrasher (Panic! At The Disco, Blink-182, Avril Lavigne), the Break Out!! EP delves into all-too-relatable situations and emotions that Sarina explores in each song. The EP opens with Living In The Moment and Skip A Beat, which find Sarina sharing her raw and genuine feelings of longing, wasted potential. She addresses the feeling of never being enough in the track titled Hold Me.
With a fist-in-the-air chorus and bouncing energy from the first note, Why Am I So Sad?! represents the pinnacle of a musical chapter for Sarina and takes her to new heights as a songwriter and performer. She embraces the times when “we feel sad for no discernible reason… and sometimes the best thing we can do is laugh at it.”
The EP closes with the self-proclaimed ‘cutest song’ Sarina has written to date, I Know Nothing. It describes the futility of comprehending life and learning to accept the unexpected challenges that come with it. “It’s a song about recognizing how little we will ever truly know in life. Life is uncontrollable and often unexpected, and what we know can be defenestrated with the same gravitas as a cartoon banana peel. Something about that is ridiculous and wonderful and so comforting,” she explains.
Born in Hawaii and raised in Tokyo by a Lebanese mother and Japanese father, Sarina was mesmerized by music and the freedom to creatively express herself from a young age. She quickly learned to master the piano, guitar, ukulele, drums, and bass as a natural extension of her musical projects and journey. Her debut single Identity was followed by five more singles, an EP titled Foreword, and six videos, which she story-boarded and headed with her original concepts and detail-oriented symbolism.
Listen to Break Out!! below and follow Sarina on Instagram and TikTok.
