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’.
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.”
