Sayuri Essentials

Self-professed “2.5-dimensional parallel singer-songwriter” Sayuri recognises the ongoing conflict of personas within and purges her maelstrom of emotions with cathartic, titanic J-rock. Her sounds burst with wild guitar thrashes and blistering drum assaults, yet her roots as one-half of acoustic duo LONGTAL are clear in her vulnerable lyricism—and in anecdotes recalling when the duo performed as street buskers. Now, firmly in the big leagues, she wears all her identities on her sleeve.