Review: After a hot reissuing run of some of her classic albums, Hikaru Itada responds to fresh demand with a brand new album, revelling in a new stripped-back, domestic house and pop sound melded with bubblegum. Her first album in 4 years, this one unabashedly heads in a PC Music / hyperpop direction. Beyond the bouncing, rubbery sonic clouds that make up 'Pink Blood' and 'I'm Crazy About You', there are unprecedented collabs with Skrillex ('Face My Fears') and A.G. Cook (on the remix of the same track), proving she's not shy from nu-school hyperworks of her fear-facing, lovesick originals.
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