Album review
Japanese Breakfast has announced a new album called For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), arriving March 21 via Dead Oceans. Produced by Blake Mills, it marks her first new album in four years, following the the Grammy-nominated Jubilee. It’s led by the single ‘Orlando in Love’, which is accompanied by a lyric video. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover, tracklist, and the band’s upcoming tour dates.
The same year she released Jubilee, Michelle Zauner issued a video game soundtrack, Sable, as well as her best-selling memoir, Crying in H Mart. “I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted,” Zauner said in a statement. “I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die.”
Tracked at the historic Sound City in Los Angeles, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) sees Zauner “pull back from the bright extroversion that defined its predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration,” according to the press release.
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) Cover Artwork:
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) Tracklist:
1. Here is Someone
2. Orlando in Love
3. Honey Water
4. Mega Circuit
5. Little Girl
6. Leda
7. Picture Window
8. Men in Bars (Feat. Jeff Bridges)
9. Winter in LA
10. Magic Mountain
Japanese Breakfast 2025 Tour Dates:
Apr 12 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Apr 19 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Apr 23 Austin, TX – Moody Theater (ACL Live) *
Apr 24 Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom *
Apr 26 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle *
Apr 27 Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte *
Apr 28 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium *
May 2 Chicago, IL – Salt Shed *
May 3 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit *
May 5 Toronto, Ontario – Massey Hall *
May 7 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
May 9 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount *
May 16 Philadelphia, PA – The Met Philadelphia Presented by Highmark *
Jun 21 Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest
Jun 24 Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller
Jun 25 Stockholm, Sweden – Filadelfia
Jun 26 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
Jun 29 Manchester, England – Academy 1
Jun 30 Glasgow, Scotland – Barrowland
Jul 3 London, England – O2 Academy Brixton
Jul 4-06 Ewijk, Netherlands – Down the Rabbit Hole
Jul 8 Paris, France – Le Trianon
Jul 10-12 Bilbao, Spain – Bilbao BBK Live
Aug 23 Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl *
Aug 28 San Francisco, CA – The Masonic *
Aug 30 Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater *
Sep 1 Vancouver, British Columbia – Orpheum Theater *
Sep 6 Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom *
Sep 9 Minneapolis, MN – The Palace Theater *
* with Ginger Root
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