Japanese Breakfast
For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
Dead Oceans
Released 03/21/25
Japanese Breakfast have released their fourth studio album For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), which follows the GRAMMY-nominated 2021 album Jubilee. Produced by Blake Mills (Fiona Apple, Feist, Laura Marling), the band’s new album is preceded by the official singles “Orlando In Love” and “Mega Circuit.”
"All of these characters succumb to some sort of temptation or disrupt a balance in their lives and are then grappling with the consequences or regrets of that decision-making," the band’s frontwoman Michelle Zauner tells NPR, referencing the figures explored throughout the album. “"For me, in this record, I was thinking a lot about how much my work life had really consumed me over the past several years. And I think at the end of the Jubilee cycle, I was really reckoning with how I had kind of disrupted a balance in my life and needed to kind of get back on track to live a happier life."
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