For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)

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For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)
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Studio album by
Japanese Breakfast
ReleasedMarch 21, 2025 (2025-03-21)
Studio Sound City Studios, Los Angeles
Length32:17
Label Dead Oceans
Producer Blake Mills
Japanese Breakfast chronology
Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack)
(2021)		For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)
(2025)
Singles from For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)
  1. "Orlando in Love"
    Released: January 7, 2025
  2. "Mega Circuit"
    Released: February 13, 2025

For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women) is the upcoming fourth studio album by American indie pop band Japanese Breakfast. It is scheduled to be released on March 21, 2025, by the Dead Oceans label, more than three years after their previous studio album Jubilee (2021).

Contents

Background and recording

The album is the band's follow-up to 2021's Grammy-nominated Jubilee , which explored happier feelings than its first two albums. The songs, by lead singer Michelle Zauner, are said to return to darker, "gothic-gloomy" melancholy inspired by the "psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration". [1] [2] [3]

Recorded at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, the album is the band's first recorded in a professional studio setting, instead of in home studios and other improvised locations. [4] Zauner worked with producer Blake Mills, best known for his works with Bob Dylan and Fiona Apple. [5]

The album was announced on January 7, 2025. [6] That same day, Zauner released the lead single, "Orlando in Love", which deals with "desire and its perils". [7] The second single, "Mega Circuit", was released on February 13, 2025. [8]

The band aims to tour North America in support of For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women) from April to September 2025. [9]

Track listing

For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Here Is Someone" 3:08
2."Orlando in Love" Michelle Zauner 2:25
3."Honey Water" 4:50
4."Mega Circuit" 3:04
5."Little Girl" 3:40
6."Leda" 3:18
7."Picture Window" 2:58
8."Men in Bars" 2:48
9."Winter in LA" 2:58
10."Magic Mountain" 3:08
Total length:32:17

References

  1. ↑ Laurent, Flo (January 9, 2025). "Japanese Breakfast announce new album For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)". Hot Press . Retrieved January 12, 2025.
  2. ↑ Murray, Robin (January 7, 2025). "Japanese Breakfast Announces New Album For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)". Clash . Retrieved January 12, 2025.
  3. ↑ Brodsky, Rachel (January 7, 2025). "Japanese Breakfast Announces New Album For For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)". Stereogum . Retrieved January 12, 2025.
  4. ↑ Kickham, Dylan (January 7, 2025). "Japanese Breakfast announces a moody new album & tour dates". Nylon . Retrieved January 12, 2025.
  5. ↑ Wescott, Andrew (January 7, 2025). "Japanese Breakfast has announced a new album For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)". Dork . Retrieved January 12, 2025.
  6. ↑ Corcoran, Nina (January 7, 2025). "Japanese Breakfast Announces Tour and New Album, Shares Video for New Song: Watch". Pitchfork . Retrieved January 12, 2025.
  7. ↑ Gregory, Allie (January 7, 2025). "Japanese Breakfast Details New Album For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women), Plots Tour". Exclaim! . Retrieved January 12, 2025.
  8. ↑ Partridge, Ken (February 13, 2025). "Japanese Breakfast Confronts Modern Masculinity On New Song "Mega Circuit"". Genius . Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  9. ↑ Martoccio, Angie (January 7, 2025). "Japanese Breakfast have a new album on the way, and the title is so damn good". Rolling Stone . Retrieved January 12, 2025.
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