Japanese Breakfast has announced a new album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’

Japanese Breakfast has announced their fourth album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’, set for release via Dead Oceans on 21st March.

The new record marks Michelle Zauner’s first proper studio album, recorded at Sound City in Los Angeles with Grammy Award-winning producer Blake Mills, known for his work with Bob Dylan and Fiona Apple.

Following Grammy-nominated album ‘Jubilee’, the new record sees Zauner exploring darker themes. “I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted,” Zauner says. “I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die.”

The album’s lead single ‘Orlando in Love’ draws inspiration from Renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo’s work, following a poet who succumbs to a siren’s call.

Japanese Breakfast has also announced The Melancholy Tour. The dates in full read:

APRIL
12 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Indio, US
19 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Indio, US
23 Moody Theater (ACL Live), Austin, US *
24 South Side Ballroom, Dallas, US
26 Tabernacle, Atlanta, US *
27 The Fillmore, Charlotte, US *
28 Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, US *

MAY
3 The Fillmore, Detroit, US *
5 Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada *
7 MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston, US *
9 Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, US *
16 The Met, Philadelphia, US *

JUNE
24 Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway
25 Filadelfia, Stockholm, Sweden
26 VEGA, Copenhagen, Denmark
29 Academy 1, Manchester, UK
30 Barrowland, Glasgow, UK

JULY
3 O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
4 Down The Rabbit Hole 2025, Ewijk, Netherlands
8 Le Trianon, Paris, France
10 BBK 2025, Bilbao, Spain

AUGUST
20 Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, San Diego, US *
28 The Masonic, San Francisco, US *
30 Hayden Homes Amphitheater, Bend, US *

SEPTEMBER
1 Orpheum Theater, Vancouver, Canada *
9 The Armory, Minneapolis, US *

* w/ Ginger Root