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- “Honey Water”
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- “Males in Bars”
- “Image Window”
It should have felt like destiny to have a file you titled Jubilee be as celebrated as a lot as Japanese Breakfast‘s third album was in 2021.
From the surface trying in, frontwoman Michelle Zauner was having the type of yr most indie musicians can solely dream of: a file acclaimed by critics and followers alike, plus a bestselling memoir referred to as Crying in H Mart.
Now, on the heels of a brand new album referred to as For Melancholy Brunettes (& unhappy girls), the truth of Japanese Breakfast’s breakout yr turns into clearer.
“It is type of ironic,” Zauner says. “I used to be type of depressing on the Jubilee tour — this joyous file — as a result of it was such a grind. And on this file, I really feel so at peace and so comfy and simply actually comfortable … Humorous sufficient, on the melancholic file, I am possibly the happiest I have been.”
Right this moment, Zauner joins us to speak about their fourth album, the books and artwork that influenced it, and the themes that run by it.
“A variety of what the file is about is each alternative you make robbing you from one other expertise and the type of melancholy that elicits,” she says.
Zauner additionally talks in regards to the yr she spent residing in South Korea in between recording and releasing this album and about her subsequent ebook that she’s at the moment engaged on.
Plus, Japanese Breakfast performs songs from the brand new album reside within the studio.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
