Japanese Breakfast shares ‘Orlando In Love’ to announce new album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ and 2025 tour

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Japanese Breakfast have announced their new album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ and have shared the lead single ‘Orlando In Love’.Produced by Grammy-Award winner Blake Mills (Sky Ferreira, Fiona Apple), Michelle Zauner and co’s fourth LP sees the group dive into a deeper, moodier sound, creating what a press release calls “an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel”.‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ was inspired by the landscape of European Romanticism, diverging from the group’s previous releases, 2017’a sci-fi inspired ‘Soft Sounds from Another Planet’ and 2021’s buoyant ‘Jubilee’. ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ is set for release on March 21 via Dead Oceans and is available for pre-order/pre-save here.The first taster of Japanese Breakfast’s new era comes in the form of the lead single ‘Orlando In Love’.

The song is a riff on John Cheever’s riff on Orlando Innamorato, an unfinished epic made up of 68 ½ cantos by the Renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo.Japanese Breakfast’s ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ comes after their Grammy-nominated LP ‘Jubilee’ and Zauner’s New York Times best-selling memoir Crying In H Mart catapulted them into the mainstream.

Speaking about the success in a press release, Zauner shared: “I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted. I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die.”1. ‘Here is Someone’2. ‘Orlando in Love’3. ‘Honey Water’4. ‘Mega Circuit’5. ‘Little Girl’6. ‘Leda’7. ‘Picture Window’8. ‘Men in Bars (feat.

Jeff Bridges)’9. ‘Winter in LA’10. ‘Magic Mountain’Elsewhere, the band have also announced their 2025 US, UK and.