JAPANESE BREAKFAST Releases Video for "Winter in LA"
JAPANESE BREAKFAST
RELEASES “WINTER IN LA” VIDEO, EXPANDS 2025 TOUR DATES
FOR MELANCHOLY BRUNETTES (& SAD WOMEN)
OUT NOW VIA DEAD OCEANS
Japanese Breakfast releases a video for “Winter In LA,” a highlight from their acclaimed new album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), out now via Dead Oceans. The video, shot in South Korea, is directed by Michelle Zauner and Peter Ash Lee and produced by SSENSE. “I made this video with Peter Ash Lee, who also shot the cover of Jubilee. I loved the idea of playing a fussy bride who ruins her own wedding,” Zauner explains.
Hot on the heels of an appearance at Coachella, which Rolling Stone called "one of the best sets of the day," and a rousing performance of “Picture Window” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Japanese Breakfast expands the tour in support of Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), with newly added shows in Los Angeles at the legendary The Greek Theater and SDSU in San Diego. The tour includes dates across North America, Asia, Europe, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Tickets for the newly announced dates will go live at 10 am EST local time via japanesebreakfast.rocks. All dates below.
Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills and tracked at Sound City in Los Angeles, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) sees 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.
“I think of melancholy as a kind of anticipatory grief, one that comes from an acknowledgment of the passage of time, from the recognition of mortality and finitude. In some way, too, I think it marks the artist’s condition, constantly observing through that lens,” Zauner says of the album. “‘Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy,’ Virginia Woolfe writes. I wanted this album to capture the moments where that knife slips. When people want too much, when they cede to temptation, when they are seduced and punished.”
WATCH THE “WINTER IN LA” VIDEO
TOUR DATES:
Apr 24 - Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom *
Apr 26 - Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle *
Apr 27 - Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore *
Apr 28 - Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium *
Apr 30 - Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed *
May 01 - Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed * - SOLD OUT
May 02 - Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed * - SOLD OUT
May 03 - Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *
May 05 - Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall * - SOLD OUT
May 06 - Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall *
May 07 - Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
May 09 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount * - SOLD OUT
May 10 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount * - SOLD OUT
May 11 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount * - SOLD OUT
May 12 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount *
May 15 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia *
May 16 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia * - SOLD OUT
Jun 03 - Sydney, AU @ Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House
Jun 05 - Melbourne, AU @ RISING at PICA
Jun 07 - Auckland, NZ @ Auckland Town Hall
Jun 11 - Tokyo, JP @ Zepp Shunkjuku
Jun 13 - Osaka, JP @ Club Quattro
Jun 15 - Cheorwon-gun, KR @ DMZ Peace Train Music Festival
Jun 21 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
Jun 24 - Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
Jun 25 - Stockholm, SE @ Filadelfia #
Jun 26 - Copenhagen, DK @ VEGA #
Jun 28 - Pilton, UK @ Glastonbury Festival
Jun 29 - Manchester, UK @ Academy 1 #
Jun 30 - Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland #
Jul 01 - Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy Bristol #
Jul 03 - London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton #
Jul 4-6 - Ewijk, NL @ Down The Rabbit Hole 2025
Jul 05 - Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg #
Jul 08 - Paris, FR @ Le Trianon #
July 10 - Bilbao, ES @ Bilbao BBK Live
July 27 - Portland, OR @ Project Pabst
Aug 20 - San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Theatre at SDSU *
Aug 22 - Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre *
Aug 23 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl *
Aug 27 - San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic *
Aug 28 - San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic * - SOLD OUT
Aug 30 - Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater *
Sep 01 - Vancouver, BC @ The Orpheum *
Sep 02 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Amphitheater *
Sep 03 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Amphitheater *
Sep 05 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Twilight Concert Series @ Pioneer Park * ^
Sep 06 - Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom *
Sep 09 - St Paul, MN @ The Palace Theater *
Sep 10 - Madison, WI @ The Sylvee *
* w/ Ginger Root
# w/ Minhwi Lee
^ w/ Tomper
WATCH THE PREVIOUSLY RELEASED VIDEOS FOR
“ORLANDO IN LOVE,” “MEGA CIRCUIT,” & “PICTURE WINDOW”
Though Zauner has experimented with science fiction on Soft Sounds from Another Planet and buoyant surrealism on Jubilee, the landscape of European Romanticism that underpins For Melancholy Brunettes and the dense tissue of classical allusion that comes with it marks new territory for a songwriter entering her artistic maturity. She credits a range of antecedents with inspiration. The forlorn café girl in Degas’ “L’absinthe”. The seascapes of Caspar David Friedrich. The passionate longing and wild, undulating moors in Wuthering Heights. Hans Castorp wrapped in his camel hair blanket, dreaming on the Berghof balcony. It is an atmosphere made palpable by the intricate, interlocking guitar arrangements that accompany much of the record, lapping like waves over the meter, often as oblique in their expression of the chord as Zauner can be in her polyvalence of feeling and insight.
Sadness is the dominant emotional key of this record, but it is sadness of a rarified form: the pensive, prescient sadness of melancholy, in which the recognition of life’s essentially tragic character occurs with sensitivity to its fleeting beauty. Zauner finds space enough inside it for glimmers of hope. They are the consolations of mortals that poets before her have called out to and that poets after will continue to rediscover: love and labor, and though they run like tonic resolutions through the record’s many episodes.
TRACK LIST:
1. Here is Someone
3. Honey Water
4. Mega Circuit
5. Little Girl
6. Leda
8. Men in Bars (Feat. Jeff Bridges)
9. Winter in LA
10. Magic Mountain
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