Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (CD) techno like an iridescent thread that

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Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (CD) techno like an iridescent thread thatCD Dead Oceans (2025) US 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 its predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves