7.7
Avg Score
10
Opinions
#5,356
All Time
10
Tracks
“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”
“You don’t so much listen to Michelle Zauner's band's new album as immerse yourself in it, letting it bathe you in its brilliance.”
“Michelle Zauner’s latest, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), is another example of her eclectic indie-pop excellence”
“Michelle Zauner’s lovely, pensive, capital-R Romantic fourth album takes a step back from autobiography to examine the performances and peril of fame itself.”
“Arguably Jbrekkie's most holistic set of songs yet.”
“Now probably more famous as the author of Crying in H Mart, her bestselling 2021 memoir about food, identity and grief, Michelle Zauner’s fourth album as Japanese Breakfast feels simultaneously assured and a little unsatisfying. The sounds are largely on point. In response to the Korean American’s last outing, 2021’s bouncier, electronic-leaning Jubilee, For Melancholy Brunettes… features mid-tem”
