Sometimes it pays to subscribe to emails.
Tuesday morning I saw an email from a sender I haven’t seen in a while: Japanese Breakfast.
The Michelle Zauner-led outfit sent an email blast to the band’s subscribers about an album coming out in March.
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) will be the band’s first record since Jubilee was released in 2021, and comes a couple of years after Zauner released her hit memoir Crying in H Mart.
To promote the new album, Japanese Breakfast released its first single Orlando In Love, which NME realised is a riff on the Orlando Innamorato. The epic poem, writtten by Matteo Maria Boairdo in the Renaissance period, contains 68.5 cantos (Japanese Breakfast rounded that up to 69). No, I have no clue what Orlando Innamorato was before this and I’m too busy reading up on fernando Pessoa to start now.
Zauner said in a press release that she felt she was “flying too close to the sun” and that she was “going to die” if she kept going.
I’m looking forward to how the rest of the album plays out, and cannot wait for this to make it onto the radio.
Japanese Breakfast will also be launching a brand new tour, beginning with performances at both weekends during the Coahcella Festival in Californai. The group also has dates in the EU and UK, although none in Washington DC (pour one out for your hoddler-in-chief).
Fitzie’s track of the day: Orlando In Love, by Japanese Breakfast
And now for your links:
Dan KP: “Ange Postecoglou reveals why even Mohamed Salah would struggle at Spurs”
Jay Harris: “Tottenham’s Richarlison hoping to return from injury for north London derby at Arsenal”
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