Japanese Breakfast has laid out plans for new album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’.

The American artist went through a transformative period in her life, one marked by the GRAMMY nominated success of ‘Jubilee’ and her best-selling memoir Crying In H Mart.

Adjusting to this rise in profile, the songwriter – real name Michelle Zauner – took a step back, wondering where true meaning could be found.

Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, new album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ is out on March 21st via Dead Oceans.

Sessions took place at Sound City in Los Angeles, with Japanese Breakfast saying of the material: “I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted. I was flying too close to the sun, and I realised if I kept going I was going to die.”

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New song ‘Orlando In Love’ offers immediately infectious guitar pop, glued together by Japanese Breakfast’s lyrical assurance. Prompted by John Cheever’s riff on Orlando Innamorato, an unfinished epic made up of 68 ½ cantos by the Renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo, the central figure is a humble poet who parks his Winnebago by the sea and falls victim to a siren’s call.

From here, we explore his 69th canto – a subtle moment of completion, and also a dirty joke.

Check out ‘Orlando In Love’ below.

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

Photo Credit: Pak Bae

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