| Rise and Shine | |
| Cover: | Cassadee Pope - Rise and Shine.jpg |
| Artist: | Cassadee Pope |
| Type: | EP |
| Genre: | Country pop |
| Label: | Awake Music |
| Prev Title: | Stages |
| Prev Year: | 2019 |
| Next Title: | Thrive |
| Next Year: | 2021 |
Rise and Shine is the third EP by American singer and songwriter Cassadee Pope, released on August 7, 2020 through Awake Music. Pope co-wrote all eight of the tracks and also co-produced the record with Todd Lombardo, both firsts in her solo career.[1] [2]
Rise and Shine includes a cover of "Hangover", originally recorded by Pope's band Hey Monday on their 2010 extended play, Beneath It All.[1] The other seven songs were written in 2017 but were not recorded in full until 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] Pope's boyfriend, actor and musician Sam Palladio, is featured as a backing vocalist on "California Dreaming".[1] The album is recorded acoustically to showcase the song's messages. "I wanted people to hear these in their purest form so I went with a more stripped back sound that really lets the lyrics stand out," Pope told MusicRow.[2]
Pope announced the release of the album on June 22, 2020.[2] "Let Me Go" and "Built This House" were released to online music stores and music streaming services on June 26.[4] Two more songs - "Hoodie" and "Counting on the Weather" - were then released July 17, 2020.[5] Pope hosted virtual release parties for the lyric video of "Let Me Go" and "Hoodie", respectively, on June 25 and July 16.[5] A lyric video for the title track premiered August 6, 2020 one day ahead of the album's release.[6]
Rianna Turner of Forbes wrote that the acoustic format "puts [Pope's] flexible voice front-and-center," and that Pope's vocal performance is "marked by its clarity."[3] Markos Papadatos of Digital Journal gave the song an "A" rating and wrote that Pope's "voice is crystalline and heavenly on this organic record."[7]