It’s been an extended 4 years, however Michelle Zauner’s beloved indie pop act Japanese Breakfast is lastly again with For Melancholy Brunettes (& Unhappy Girls), the band’s fourth album, launched Friday.
For Melancholy Brunettes follows the critically acclaimed Jubilee, which grew to become Japanese Breakfast’s most profitable undertaking up to now, incomes Zauner Grammy nominations for greatest new artist and greatest various music album on the sixty fourth Grammys again in 2022.
Zauner introduced the brand new album again in January, sharing the album’s lead single “Orlando In Love” the identical day. She launched the follow-up single “Mega Circuit” a month later. Blake Mills, whose manufacturing credit embrace tracks for Fiona Apple, Fragrance Genius, Dawes and Alabama Shakes amongst others, produced the undertaking.
In celebration of the album’s launch, Japanese Breakfast are enjoying a sold-out present at El Museo Del Barrio in New York on Saturday. Japanese Breakfast will hit the highway in help of the album quickly, beginning with units at Coachella subsequent month, the primary time since 2022 .
Exterior of music, Zauner additionally revealed her New York Occasions best-selling memoir Crying in H Mart again in 2021. The e-book was picked up for a movie adaptation that very same yr, with White Lotus star Will Sharpe tapped to direct the undertaking in 2023. Zauner informed Ssense earlier this yr that Sharpe is now not directing the movie and mentioned the undertaking is “not taking place anytime quickly.”
She mentioned, “Proper now, I’m specializing in different inventive tasks, so the movie must wait.”
