Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Japanese Breakfast\u2019s last album Jubilee came out in 2021, soon after the publication of their frontwoman Michelle Zauner\u2019s memoir Crying in H Mart. The album was an indie hit, but the book was a mainstream bestseller. It is about Zauner\u2019s relationship with her Korean mother, who moved to Oregon after marrying Zauner\u2019s father, a US citizen. She died of cancer in 2014.Following the memoir\u2019s success, spending more than a year in the book charts, Zauner must now juggle the different demands of album and publishing cycles. She is working on a follow-up to Crying in H Mart, about the year that she recently spent in South Korea learning to speak her mother tongue properly. Meanwhile, her band is back in action with its fourth studio album.Japanese Breakfast formed in Philadelphia\u2019s DIY music scene in 2013, a milieu of part-time jobs and shabby shared apartments. (Zauner\u2019s mother disapproved of her daughter\u2019s life choices. \u201cYou want to be a starving musician?\u201d she says in Crying in H Mart. \u201cThen go live like one.\u201d) For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) marks a step-up in status.Produced by Blake Mills, it was recorded in Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, a fabled location in rock history. The arrangements feature a wide variety of instrumentation, including gamelan, sarod, celeste, cello and pedal steel guitar. In contrast to Zauner\u2019s autobiographical literary work, and also the memoiristic quality of earlier Japanese Breakfast records, the songs are about fictional scenarios.Lasting just over 30 minutes, the 10 tracks are loosely linked by themes of dissatisfaction. \u201cHere is Someone\u201d is a shimmering vision of a stagnant relationship, sung in a hazy voice by Zauner, but with clear phrasing. The song\u2019s lack of structure fits with the protagonist\u2019s acceptance of their lot. \u201cHoney Water\u201d is a gripping shoegaze number about infidelity that builds towards the controlled anger of a distorted guitar solo.Other songs are underpowered. \u201cMega Circuit\u201d is breezy indie-pop with opaque verses about incels and toxic men, a mismatch between tone and topic. \u201cMen in Bars\u201d is a country duet about a collapsing relationship, featuring the actor Jeff Bridges; inspired casting, until he starts singing in a low, strangulated voice that sucks energy from the surroundings. Despite its handsome musical textures and thematic design, this brief album leaves a feeling of slightness, like a series of sketches.\u00a0\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606\u2018For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)\u2019 is released by Dead Oceans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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