New Album from Utada Hikaru

Utada Hikaru will release her first full original album in eight years on September 28th. This will be the singer's sixth album, coming after 2008's Heart Station.

Currently untitled, the upcoming album will include Hanataba wo kimini, theme song of NHK drama serial “Toto Nee-Chan: Fatherly Sister”, Manatsu no tooriame, theme song of Nippon Television's news programme “NEWS ZERO” and Sakura nagashi, a digital single released in November 2012 as the theme song of “Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo”. These three songs will be made available on CD for the first time, and all the other tracks on the album will be newly-written works.

Previews of Hanataba wo kimini and Manatsu no tooriame can be found on Utada Hikaru's official website at http://www.utadahikaru.jp/release/index_e.htm.