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New IU music will be released this month, EDAM Entertainment has confirmed.
Yesterday (May 12), EDAM Entertainment announced via a Naver article that IU is currently “preparing a new album with the goal of releasing it in May”. A release date has yet to be announced.
Additionally, EDAM has shared that IU will also be releasing a music video that will include ASTRO singer Cha Eun-woo making “a cameo appearance”. Little else is known of IU’s album, or the music video with Cha Eun-woo.
It will mark IU’s first release in over a year. During her time away from music, IU has earned praised for her starring role in the Netflix K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines alongside Park Bo-gum. Set in 1960s Jeju, the series follows a couple as they weather the trials and tribulations throughout all four seasons on the South Korean island.
In March, IU covered G-Dragon‘s ‘Butterfly’ and ‘That XX’ during an episode of her YouTube talk show, IU’s Palette. Later in the episode, G-Dragon returned the favour by sharing his own rendition of IU’s ‘Bonamana’.
IU’s most recent release was her ninth EP ‘The Winning’, which she dropped in February 2024 alongside the singles ‘Love Wins All’, ‘Shopper’ and ‘Holssi’. Its lead single ‘Love Wins All’ has since been named one of NME’s 25 Best K-pop Songs of 2024.
In a four-star review of the EP, NME‘s Rhian Daly wrote: “Minor stylistic faults aside – and with a gigantic year ahead for one of Korea’s foremost talents – on her first document of a new decade, IU soars high and free and stays winning.”
The post IU reportedly scheduled to release new album this month appeared first on NME.
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