Japanese Breakfast Announce New Album 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)' And Tour Dates
Tuesday, 07 January 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Pak Bae
Japanese Breakfast have announced their fourth studio album.
'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)', the follow-up to 2021's 'Jubilee', will arrive on March 21 via Dead Oceans. A press release states that the Greek myth The plight of Icarus is among the core themes that run through the album, along with other "condemned ones" where characters are taken through "cycles of temptation, transgression, and retribution."
"I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted," primary songwriter and vocalist-guitarist Michaelle Zauner said of the material. "I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die."
Recorded at the famous Sound City in Los Angeles and produced by Grammy-winner Blake Mills, the record is previewed by the strings-laden lead single Orlando In Love, which finds Zauner and band showcasing a more gothic guitar-pop sound. The song's title is a riff on Italian Renaissance author Matteo Maria Boiardo's unfinished epic poem, Orlando innamorato.
Japanese Breakfast will perform at Coachella in Indio, California in April, followed by the first North American leg of the Melancholy Tour. They'll tour Europe in the summer, including stops in Manchester, Glasgow and London between June 29 and July 3, before a second run of North American dates in August and September. Both North American legs will feature support from Ginger Root. Tickets for all dates go on general sale at 10am local time on Friday (January 10).
'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 Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Wed April 23 2025 - AUSTIN Texas - Moody Theater (USA)
Thu April 24 2025 - DALLAS Texas - South Side Ballroom (USA)
Sat April 26 2025 - ATLANTA Georgia - Tabernacle (USA)
Sun April 27 2025 - CHARLOTTE North Carolina - Fillmore (USA)
Mon April 28 2025 - NASHVILLE Tennessee - Ryman Auditorium (USA)
Fri May 02 2025 - CHICAGO Illinois - Salt Shed (USA)
Sat May 03 2025 - DETROIT Michigan - Fillmore (USA)
Mon May 05 2025 - TORONTO Ontario - Massey Hall (Canada)
Wed May 07 2025 - BOSTON Massachusetts - MGM Music Hall at Fenway (USA)
Fri May 09 2025 - BROOKLYN New York - Paramount (USA)
Fri May 16 2025 - PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania - Met (USA)
Tue June 24 2025 - OSLO Rockefeller Music Hall (Norway)
Wed June 25 2025 - STOCKHOLM Fildelfia (Sweden)
Thu June 26 2025 - COPENHAGEN Vega (Denmark)
Sun June 29 2025 - MANCHESTER Academy
Mon June 30 2025 - GLASGOW Barrowland
Thu July 03 2025 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
Tue July 08 2025 - PARIS Le Trianon (France)
Sat August 23 2025 - SANTA BARBARA California - Santa Barbara Bowl (USA)
Thu August 28 2025 - SAN FRANCISCO California - Masonic (USA)
Sat August 30 2025 - BEND Oregon - Hayden Homes Amphitheater (USA)
Mon September 01 2025 - VANCOUVER British Columbia - Orpheum Theater (Canada)
Sat September 06 2025 - DENVER Colorado - The Mission Ballroom (USA)
Tue September 09 2025 - MINNEAPOLIS Minnesota - Armory (USA)
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