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- “Honey Water”
- “Mega Circuit”
- “Males in Bars”
- “Image Window”
It will need to have felt like destiny to have a document you titled Jubilee be as celebrated as a lot as Japanese Breakfast‘s third album was in 2021.
From the surface trying in, frontwoman Michelle Zauner was having the form of 12 months most indie musicians can solely dream of: a document acclaimed by critics and followers alike, plus a bestselling memoir referred to as Crying in H Mart.
Now, on the heels of a brand new album referred to as For Melancholy Brunettes (& unhappy girls), the fact of Japanese Breakfast’s breakout 12 months turns into clearer.
“It is form of ironic,” Zauner says. “I used to be form of depressing on the Jubilee tour — this joyous document — as a result of it was such a grind. And on this document, I really feel so at peace and so comfy and simply actually comfortable … Humorous sufficient, on the melancholic document, I am perhaps the happiest I have been.”
In the present day, Zauner joins us to speak about their fourth album, the books and artwork that influenced it, and the themes that run by means of it.
“Lots of what the document is about is each selection you make robbing you from one other expertise and the form of melancholy that elicits,” she says.
Zauner additionally talks in regards to the 12 months she spent dwelling in South Korea in between recording and releasing this album and about her subsequent e-book that she’s presently engaged on.
Plus, Japanese Breakfast performs songs from the brand new album stay within the studio.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
