Review: The extensive reissue campaign for Japanese pop icon Hikaru Utada continues apace with the repress of their second album, 2001's Distance. Utada notched up the biggest selling record in Japanese history with their debut First Love, so there was already a huge anticipation for their follow-up, and they didn't disappoint. It sold 3 million copies in the first week of release alone. Utada worked with American producers on this record, including RnB maestro Rodney Jerkins (of Toni Braxton fame) and the unstoppable force of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, surely two of the most important producers in RnB from that time. The results are as high-end as you would expect, and finally after more than 20 years Distance is back on vinyl.
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