After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), marks the band’s first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle 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. The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.
01. HERE IS SOMEONE
02. ORLANDO IN LOVE
03. HONEY WATER
04. MEGA CIRCUIT
05. LITTLE GIRL
06. LEDA
07. PICTURE WINDOW
08. MEN IN BARS
09. WINTER IN LA
10. MAGIC MOUNTAIN
