Haruomi Hosono covers the Moonglows song Sincerely

Haruomi Hosono has released a cover of "Sincerely," the 1954 doo-wop song originally recorded by The Moonglows, taken from his coming album Yours Sincerely, Pitchfork and The Quietus reported on August 12.

Yours Sincerely arrives September 11 via Ghostly International and marks Hosono's first full-length release in seven years and his 23rd solo album overall, and his first for the label. The former Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder set his version of "Sincerely" to a minimal acoustic-guitar arrangement and wrote new Japanese-language lyrics for it.

"Since the theme of this album itself is the spirit of sincerely, a closing salutation, I could hardly leave this song uncovered," Hosono said in a press release. He noted that the original 1954 lyrics, written by Alan Freed, are a love song of intense yearning, but that he wanted his own version to return to the word's plainer meaning, "from the heart," while still honoring the 1950s original and its writer, Harvey Fuqua of the Moonglows.

The album's title was also drawn from omoiyari, a Japanese concept that can mean both "suffering together" and "rejoicing together" depending on how it is used, according to The Quietus.

Hosono will play two shows with Toro y Moi next month, at New York's Radio City Music Hall on September 16 and the Greek Theater in Los Angeles on September 20, part of a run of new electronic releases MusicSuey is tracking on the release calendar.