Japanese Breakfast on the books that shaped For Melancholy Brunettes (and sad women)
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thefader.comLike with any great conceptual art, Japanese Breakfast’s ornate effort, For Melancholy Brunettes (and sad women), began with a mood board.
In 2023, two years after the release of her last album Jubilee, the indie rock outfit’s Michelle Zauner started collecting the pieces that would shape the world of her new album.
She searched out grand and misty paintings from German Romanticism artists like Eduard von Grützner and Caspar David Friedrich, and she read books.
Lots of books. Over the course of that year, Zauner diligently plowed through tomes like David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1,000+ pages), and Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain (700+ pages).
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