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Japanese Breakfast

Data updated on 2025-08-14 10:51:46 UTC
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), out now on Dead Oceans, marks the band’s first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills — an innovator of uncommon subtlety, known for his work with everyone from Bob Dylan to Fiona Apple and quietly regarded as many a legacy artist’s favorite guitar player — and tracked at the venerable Sound City in Los Angeles — birthplace of After The Gold Rush, Fleetwood Mac and Nevermind among other classics — 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.

Genres

: art pop eugene indie indie pop indie rock philly indie

Total plays

554.0 million
Updated on 2025-08-14

Country

United States

Social media links

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Monthly listeners

2,362,674

Followers

821,053

Top Cities

  1. United States
    Los Angeles
    70,002 listeners
  2. United States
    New York City
    63,886 listeners
  3. United States
    Chicago
    57,888 listeners
  4. United States
    Brooklyn
    51,190 listeners
  5. United States
    Seattle
    38,655 listeners

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