J-pop icon Utada Hikaru’s 6th full Japanese album ‘Fantôme’ was released in 2016, 8 years after her last Japanese album. Utada had taken a long break from music to heal from the wounds of her personal life, including the death of her mother and her divorce from her husband. What arose from Utada’s return to music is not only her best album by far - but an essential album in J-pop history which cemented Utada as one of the most compelling pop songwriters of not just ...
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