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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 skin wanting in, frontwoman Michelle Zauner was having the sort of yr most indie musicians can solely dream of: a file acclaimed by critics and followers alike, plus a bestselling memoir known as Crying in H Mart.
Now, on the heels of a brand new album known as For Melancholy Brunettes (& unhappy ladies), the truth of Japanese Breakfast’s breakout yr turns into clearer.
“It is sort of ironic,” Zauner says. “I used to be sort 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 snug and simply actually blissful … Humorous sufficient, on the melancholic file, I am perhaps 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 number of what the file is about is each selection you make robbing you from one other expertise and the sort of melancholy that elicits,” she says.
Zauner additionally talks concerning the yr she spent residing in South Korea in between recording and releasing this album and about her subsequent e book that she’s presently engaged on.
Plus, Japanese Breakfast performs songs from the brand new album stay within the studio.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The net 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.