Japanese Breakfast New Album Release Party at Indy CD & Vinyl

Schedule

Fri Mar 21 2025 at 11:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

806 Broad Ripple Ave, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46220 | Indianapolis, IN

The new Japanese breakfast album is being released at Indy CD & Vinyl and you can join us for a new album listening event and release party at the shop!
For our customers who pre-order and buy the new album "For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)" on standard LP, exclusive colored vinyl LP, CD, and cassette we will have some exclusive goodies like limited-edition double-sided posters, and limited-edition record sleeves (a cool outer slip-sleeve that goes over your record sleeve), exclusive to this listening event!
Stop in the shop and pre-order your copies now, and make plans to be at the store on release day, Friday March 21st, to hear the album, pick up your copy to keep, and get the limited-edition goodies while they last!
More about the new album:
After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfast's fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), marks the band's first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined it's predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration. The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.
For Melancholy Brunettes follows a transformative period in Zauner's life during which her 2x GRAMMY nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart catapulted her into the cultural mainstream, delivering on her deepest artistic ambitions. 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." The plight of Icarus and other such condemned ones lends For Melancholy Brunettes it's most persistent theme, the perils of desire. Like light dispersed, it's spectral parts take the album's characters through cycles of temptation, transgression and retribution. On "Orlando in Love" - a riff on John Cheever's riff on Orlando Innamorato, an unfinished epic made up of 68 ½ cantos by the Renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo - the hero is a well meaning poet who parks his Winnebago by the sea and falls victim to a siren's call, his 69th canto (even in the lofty realm of classical myth Zauner has a soft spot for innuendo). "Honey Water" plumbs the quiet rage of a woman married to an unfaithful man, watching him cede again and again to lust like a base insect perpetuating it's own demise. Sadness is indeed the dominant emotional key of this record, but it is sadness of a rarified form: the pensive, prescient sadness of melancholy, in which the recognition of life's essentially tragic character occurs with sensitivity to it's fleeting beauty. Zauner finds space enough inside it for glimmers of hope. They are the consolations of mortals that poets before her have called out to and that poets after will continue to rediscover: love and labor, and though they run like tonic resolutions through the record's many episodes, they sound most saliently on it's final song, "Magic Mountain," an engagement with Thomas Mann's famous novel of the same name. For her, making any work feels like scaling a mountain, but from the perch of For Melancholy Brunettes, she surveys the future.

Where is it happening?

806 Broad Ripple Ave, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Indiana 46220
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