After nearly four years since their last release, indie-pop band Japanese Breakfast kicked off 2025 by announcing a new album and tour.
Incredibly entitled For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), the record drops on March 21 via Dead Oceans. It’s the follow up to the band’s Grammy-nominated 2021 album Jubilee. Listen to the lead single, “Orlando in Love,” below. This is the official studio release of the song after Japanese Breakfast performed it live at concerts for the last couple of years.
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) was recorded at the famed Sound City studios in Los Angeles and produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills. If you’re unfamiliar with Sound City’s historical significance in music, watch Dave Grohl’s excellent 2013 documentary Sound City.
Japanese Breakfast will support the album with the Melancholy Tour kicking off this spring — which includes a stop at the Fillmore Detroit on May 3. The Cameron Lew-led Ginger Root is the supporting act for the North American dates. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at livenation.com, but a limited amount of presale tickets will be available on Wednesday.
Japanese Breakfast founder Michelle Zauner reached new heights in American pop culture after the release of her 2021 bestselling memoir “Crying in H Mart.” Jubilee shortly followed with several sold-out dates during that tour cycle. The Japanese Breakfast show at Saint Andrews Hall that year was the first concert I attended since COVID shut everything down, so Jubilee holds a special place in my heart.
