Japanese Breakfast have announced their new album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ and have shared the lead single ‘Orlando In Love’.
Produced by Grammy-Award winner Blake Mills (Sky Ferreira, Fiona Apple), Michelle Zauner and co’s fourth LP sees the group dive into a deeper, moodier sound, creating what a press release calls “an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel”.
‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ was inspired by the landscape of European Romanticism, diverging from the group’s previous releases, 2017’a sci-fi inspired ‘Soft Sounds from Another Planet’ and 2021’s buoyant ‘Jubilee’. ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ is set for release on March 21 via Dead Oceans and is available for pre-order/pre-save here.
The first taster of Japanese Breakfast’s new era comes in the form of the lead single ‘Orlando In Love’. The song is a riff on John Cheever’s riff on Orlando Innamorato, an unfinished epic made up of 68 ½ cantos by the Renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo.
Japanese Breakfast’s ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ comes after their Grammy-nominated LP ‘Jubilee’ and Zauner’s New York Times best-selling memoir Crying In H Mart catapulted them into the mainstream. Speaking about the success in a press release, Zauner shared: “I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted. I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die.”
Japanese Breakfast ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ album artwork. Credit: PRESS
The tracklist for ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ is:
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’
Elsewhere, the band have also announced their 2025 US, UK and European tour which will kick off with their slot at this year’s edition of Coachella in California followed by stops in Austin, Atlanta, Charlotte, Detroit, Boston, Brooklyn and more before heading over to Europe and the UK. The tour will close out with a return to the US and wrap up at The Armory in Minneapolis on September 9.
Check out a full list of tour dates below. An artist pre-sale will be made available tomorrow (January 8) at 10am local time. General ticket sales will commence on Friday (January 10) at 10am local time. Visit here to purchase US tickets and here for UK and European tickets.
Japanese Breakfast’s Melancholy 2025 tour dates are:
APRIL
12 & 19 – Indio, CA, Coachella Music and Arts Festival
23 – Austin, TX, Moody Theater (ACL Live) *
24 – Dallas, TX, South Side Ballroom
26 – Atlanta, GA, Tabernacle *
27 – Charlotte, NC, The Fillmore *
28 – Nashville, TN, Ryman Auditorium *
MAY
3 – Detroit, MI, The Fillmore *
5 – Toronto, ON, Massey Hall *
7 – Boston, MA, MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
9 – Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Paramount *
16 – Philadelphia, PA, The Met *
JUNE
24 – Oslo, Rockefeller
25 – Stockholm, Filadelfia
26 – Copenhagen, VEGA
29 – Manchester, Academy 1
30 – Glasgow, Barrowland
JULY
3 – London, O2 Academy Brixton
4-6 – Ewijk, Down The Rabbit Hole 2025
8 – Paris, Le Trianon
10-12 – Bilbao, BBK 2025
AUGUST
20 – San Diego, CA, Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre *
28 – San Francisco, CA, The Masonic *
30 – Bend, OR, Hayden Homes Amphitheater *
SEPTEMBER
1 – Vancouver, BC, Orpheum Theater *
9 – Minneapolis, MN, The Armory *
* w/ Ginger Root
In a four-star review of Japanese Breakfast’s ‘Jubilee’, NME wrote: “After making her name writing about the most difficult topics possible, Zauner proves here that it’s within your grasp to grab joy from that pain even when it feels impossible. Let ‘Jubilee’ be your guide.”
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