
Japanese Breakfast – ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)’ review: a work of art
If Japanese Breakfast were a ship at sail, it might seem like the band came into berth only in the last few years. In 2021 the explosive success of their third album ‘Jubilee’ netted them Grammy nods, headline tours and universal acclaim (the same year frontwoman Michelle Zauner published her phenomenally successful memoir Crying In H-Mart). But the band has lived many sonic lives at sea, charting an ever-changing course from discordant melancholia on ‘Psychopomp’ and ‘Soft Sounds From Another P...