Japanese Breakfast Announce New Album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’

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Indie-pop favourites Japanese Breakfast announce fourth album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)‘ and drop new single ‘Orlando In Love’

Following their fantastic 2021 third album ‘Jubilee’ and front-woman Michelle Zauner’s bestselling memoir ‘Crying In H Mart,’ today Japanese Breakfast have announced their fourth album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’, out on 21st March via Dead Oceans.

Their first album fully recorded in a studio, ‘Melancholy Brunettes’ is produced by Blake Mills (Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple) and promises to ‘pull back’ from the bubbly extroversion of the last record. Expect moodier, darker tracks – more mature and contemplative while still romantic as ever.

Lead single ‘Orlando In Love’ is a gorgeous but reserved and stripped-back tune, telling the tale of a poet, whose epic is cut short by his falling victim to a siren’s call. Playing on Orlando Innamorato, the unfinished epic, Zauner draws on literature and culture while never getting bogged down by too dense a concept.

The track is airy and warm, with quietly strummed guitars, violins and minimal percussion allowing Zauner’s effortless vocals all the space they need to tell their story. It is a short track and one that we hope will come further to life in the context of the full record, one of our most anticipated for the year.

Listen to ‘Orlando In Love’ here:

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Catch Japanese Breakfast at the following:

Apr 12 & 19 – Indio, CA @ Coachella 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 *

Apr 28 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium *

May 3 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *

May 5 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall *

May 7 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *

May 9 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount *

May 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met *

Jun 24 – Oslo @ Rockefeller

Jun 25 – Stockholm @ Filadelfia

Jun 26 – Copenhagen @ VEGA

Jun 29 – Manchester @ Academy 1

Jun 30 – Glasgow @ Barrowland

Jul 3 – London @ O2 Academy Brixton

Jul 4-6 – Ewijk @ Down The Rabbit Hole 2025

Jun 8 – Paris @ Le Trianon

Jul 10-12 – Bilbao @ BBK 2025

Aug 20 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre *

Aug 28 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic *

Aug 30 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater *

Sep 1 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum Theater *

Sep 9 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory *

* w/ Ginger Root

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