Update your settings

Last week, Japanese Breakfast performed “Orlando In Love” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The track is the lead single from the band’s recently announced new album For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), out March 21 on Dead Oceans. Japanese Breakfast’s world tour tour in support of the album kicks off at Coachella on April 12. Tickets for all shows are available now at japanesebreakfast.rocks/tour.

In January, the video for “Orlando in Love” directed by frontwoman/songwriter Michelle Zauner, with cinematography by Peter Ash Lee and Adam Kolodny, was unveiled. In a statement about the video, Zauner said:

“‘Orlando in Love’ is made up of a hodgepodge of odd references. The title comes from an epic poem by Matteo Maria Boiardo called Orlando Innamorato, which ends abruptly at 68.5 cantos because Italy was invaded by French troops, and that’s as far as he got before he had to flee. I fell in love with the title and envisioned a sort of whimsical, foolish male protagonist who lives by the sea in a Winneabeago RV and is seduced by a siren. After writing it, it felt like the perfect thesis statement for an album that is largely about people, often men, who find themselves seduced by temptation and are duly punished for it.

Somewhere along the way I came across Eduard von Grützner’s painting ‘The Connoisseur’ and I started to picture Orlando as a daydreaming friar who can’t help but tipple of the Abbey’s brews. He dreams of his siren and despite the dream’s foreboding imagery, decides he must run and find her. The siren is played by my dear friend Jungle, whom I spent most of my time with in Korea this year. The friars are played by Missy Dabice from Mannequin Pussy, making her return to the Jbrekkie Cinecanon, and Molly Germer. We filmed half of the video in Korea with Peter Ash Lee, who shot the cover of Jubilee, and half of it at my alma mater, Bryn Mawr College, with my longtime collaborator and DP, Adam Kolodny.”

Melancholy Brunettes was produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills and tracked at Sound City in Los Angeles. It follows a transformative period in Zauner's life during which her Grammy nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart gained mainstream attention.

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.”

North American Tour Dates: