Japanese Breakfast | Artist
Japanese Breakfast is an American indie-pop band formed 2013 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by singer and guitarist Michelle Zauner. Zauner started the band as a side project when she was leading the Philadelphia-based emo group Little Big League. Peter Bradley (guitar, piano), Craig Hendrix (drums, bass, production), and Deven Craige (bass) were later recruited as backup members. With her artfully experimental, deeply intimate brand of indie pop, Zauber and band have rapidly become one of the US's hottest indie acts, being nominated for Best Alternative Music Album for Juilee and for Best New Artist at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. The first Japanese Breakfast release was June (2013), the result of a month-long project in which Zauner and Rachel Gagliardi of the punk band Slutever, recorded one song a day and posted them on the Tumblr blog "rachelandmichelledojune". Then in 2015, while working at an advertising agency, Zauner recorded her first studio album as Japanese Breakfast. Psychopomp, named after a mythological creature, is according to Zauner, a "dark and heavy-handed" record dealing with her mother's death, although she tried to make the music "urgent and sonically upbeat." The band then achieved a critical and commercial breakthrough with Jubilee, the second studio album on the Dead Oceans label. The rollout of Jubilee began on March 2, 2021, with the release of the album's lead single "Be Sweet", and an accompanying video. Two other singles; "Posing in Bondage" and "Savage Good Boy" were released before the album itself dropped on June 4. Zauner said the album was in part inspired by Icelandic musician Bjork's third album, Homogenic. Japanese Breakfast's sound has primarily been described as indie pop, containing elements of experimental pop, lo-fi, dream pop and indie rock. To-date they have released five studio albums, one live album, and numerous singles and EP's. Standout albums include Psychopomp (2016), Soft Sounds From Another Planet (2017), Jubilee (2021), Sable (2021), and Live at Electric Lady (2021). Zauner has said that she named the band after seeing a GIF of Japanese breakfast and deciding that the term would be considered exotic to Americans; she also thought it would make others wonder what a Japanese breakfast consists of. Michelle Zauner was born in 1989 in Seoul, South Korea to a Korean mother and Jewish-American father, she grew up in Eugene, Oregon, where her parents moved when she was still an infant.
Artist Website: japanesebreakfast.rocks
Featured Albums: Japanese Breakfast
Related Artists: Little Big league, Post Post
