Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (CD)

Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (CD)CD Dead Oceans (2025) US 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

it’s about home

purple hues as vivid and unpredictable as one of the state’s rightfully celebrated sunsets

Renaissance is a culmination of freedom and escape that encourages unimaginable jubilation

If what comes out the other end is the music of Bonobo

Ltd edition Double Yellow and Red Vinyl

Produced by Ian Broudie and Simon Rodgers

and hit play again

and go on to inspire platinum-selling bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance

There is a notable shift on Circles when you consider the first three Tanukichan releases were produced by a pioneer of the chillwave genre

Wake (Nothing But You)”

of a still-searching talent discovering what it means to be truly free

Merge Records (2024) UK