Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (Vinyl)
$67.00
Regular price $50.00Japanese Breakfast returns with their first album in four years and first since the breakthrough smash Jubilee and Michelle Zauner’s debut memoir 'Crying in H Mart'.
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) follows a transformative period in Michelle Zauner’s life during which her 2x GRAMMY nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart catapulted her into the cultural mainstream, delivering on her deepest artistic ambitions. Reflecting on that success, Zauner came to appreciate the irony of desire, which so often commingles bliss and doom. “I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted,” she says. “I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die.”
The plight of Icarus and other such condemned ones lends For Melancholy Brunettes its most persistent theme, the perils of desire. Like light dispersed, its spectral parts take the album’s characters through cycles of temptation, transgression and retribution.
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.
Available on 'Frosted Shadow' Coloured Vinyl / Black Vinyl & CD
Tracklist:
A1. Here is Someone
A2. Orlando in Love
A3. Honey Water
A4. Mega Circuit
A5. Little Girl
B1. Leda
B2. Picture Window
B3. Men in Bars
B4. Winter in LA
B5. Magic Mountain
$67.00
Regular price $50.00Japanese Breakfast returns with their first album in four years and first since the breakthrough smash Jubilee and Michelle Zauner’s debut memoir 'Crying in H Mart'.
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) follows a transformative period in Michelle Zauner’s life during which her 2x GRAMMY nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart catapulted her into the cultural mainstream, delivering on her deepest artistic ambitions. Reflecting on that success, Zauner came to appreciate the irony of desire, which so often commingles bliss and doom. “I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted,” she says. “I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die.”
The plight of Icarus and other such condemned ones lends For Melancholy Brunettes its most persistent theme, the perils of desire. Like light dispersed, its spectral parts take the album’s characters through cycles of temptation, transgression and retribution.
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.
Available on 'Frosted Shadow' Coloured Vinyl / Black Vinyl & CD
Tracklist:
A1. Here is Someone
A2. Orlando in Love
A3. Honey Water
A4. Mega Circuit
A5. Little Girl
B1. Leda
B2. Picture Window
B3. Men in Bars
B4. Winter in LA
B5. Magic Mountain
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