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Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
On her third album as Japanese Breakfast, Michelle Zauner moves confidently through a space befitting of the multi-hyphenate artist she has become
★★★★ Album title: Jubilee
The late anime filmmaker Satoshi Kon’s final feature
Paprika followed characters as they slipped in and out of dreams, stories melding into one another, the line between what is reality and what is imagined blurred beyond comprehension. It’s a rush! , sings Michelle Zauner on the opening track of
Jubilee, her third album as Japanese Breakfast, also called Paprika. It sets up a collection of songs that dip in and out of worlds, weaving the personal and the fictionalised with literary flair dressed up in celebratory, rousing pop songs.
In 2014, singer, songwriter and author Michelle Zauner lost her mother to pancreatic cancer. Working through her grief, she captured the experience in a powerful New Yorker personal essay called “Crying in H Mart”, named for the Korean grocery chain where she’d select ingredients to recreate meals she and her mother, Chongmi, used to enjoy together. Zauner, who records under the moniker Japanese Breakfast, later expanded her essay into a memoir.
Japanese Breakfast releases Jubilee on June 4th.
March 2022 will bring Michelle Zauner and her approaching new Japanese Breakfast album to the UK.
Gigs in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds have been lined up for that month, while the closing night is booked at the O2 Forum in London.
Also out is a video for Savage Good Boy starring Sopranos royalty Michael Imperioli, a track built from a headline Zauner read ‘about billionaires buying bunkers’:
“I was interested in examining that specific type of villainy, and I found myself adopting the perspective of a rich man coaxing a young woman to come live with him underground, attempting to rationalize his almost impossible share of greed and miserliness.”
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