HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN

Holidays in the Sun is the fourth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yui. It was released on July 14, 2010, by gr8! Records. This was her first album release in about one year and eight months since My Short Stories, and her first original album release in two years and three months since I Loved Yesterday. The title of the album comes from the song of the same name by the English band Sex Pistols. Beginning in early 2008, the album's production was handled by longtime collaborator Hisashi Kondō. Yui served as the sole lyricist and composer on Holidays in the Sun, as she had on all of her preceding albums. Holidays in the Sun is primarily a J-pop album with numerous elements of pop rock, folk pop, bossa nova, gospel music, and pop ballads. Upon its release, Holidays in the Sun was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, many of whom complimented the singles, composition, and labelled it as Yui's strongest album to date. However, some questioned the memorability of some of the songs. Commercially, Holidays in the Sun was a success, becoming her third studio album to reach the top spot on Japan's Oricon Albums Chart. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)