Japanese Breakfast, “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)” Japanese Breakfast, the project of vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Michelle Zauner, has been in the indie spotlight for almost a decade. Her debut, 2016’s Psychopomp, brought instant success and acclaim for her poignant style. Six years later, the band was nominated…

“Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono.” I’m convinced one of the reasons the aliens refuse to make contact is our species’ hot takes about Yoko Ono. Any sufficiently advanced civilization would certainly appreciate Ono’s boundary-breaking work, and the fact that she’s blamed for everything from the breakup of the…

Ever thought about using paprika, a spice from central Mexico that spread to Europe during the 1500s, to describe someone who is the center of attention in a pop song? If not, then check out the opening track to Japanese Breakfast’s newest album, Jubilee. In this song, the South Korean…

Brief, sugared and lustrous, yet heartrendingly mournful, Michelle Zauner’s Psychopomp — a tribute to her late mother, was a surprisingly sublime debut. Under the moniker Japanese Breakfast, Zauner follows up her 2016 sleeper success with a more experimental project, Soft Sounds From Another Planet. Soft Sounds From Another Planet Japanese Breakfast…