Japanese Breakfastreturns with their first album in four years and first since the breakthrough smash Jubilee and Michelle Zauners debut memoir ‘Crying in H Mart‘.

For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) follows a transformative period in Michelle Zauners 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