Japanese singer Hikaru Utada collaborates with Floating Points for a funky 11-minute acid house track

Top-selling Japanese singer and songwriter Hikaru Utada arrives with her eighth studio LP called Bad Mode in which she teams up with Floating Points for a funky 11-minute acid house track called 'Somewhere Near Marseilles'.

In Bad Mode, the J-pop artist revisits and celebrates the energetic and fun dance-pop of the 90s and early 2000s, around the time when she became an enormous star with her 1999 debut First Love which sold 11 million copies.

Collaborations are strong on the EP. Skrillex and A. G. Cook co-produced 'Face My Fears' and 'One Last Kiss' alongside Utada respectively, and 'Somewhere Near Marseilles' sees Utada team up with British DJ and producer Floating Points aka Shepherd, and the track that takes us back to the breezy, magical summer of 2000.

The English producer and the Japanese-American vocalist’s affection for soul-pop and disco transport smoothly onto 'Somewhere Near Marseilles'. The funky 11-minute hypnotic acid house track consists of an acid line together with electronic hand drums and shakers sandwiched between Utada’s soothing vocals where she comfortably switches between Japanese and English with the line “Let's go fast, then go slow” on repeat.

Bad Mode is Hikaru Utada’s 8th studio album and was available digitally on January 19. The CD will be released on February 23.