Japanese Breakfast is announcing a 2025 tour in support of For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) with headline shows across North America. 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. For Melancholy Brunettes follows a transformative period in Michelle Zauner’s 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.

Sadness is indeed the dominant emotional key of this record, but it is sadness of a rarified form: the pensive, prescient sadness of melancholy, in which the recognition of life’s essentially tragic character occurs with sensitivity to its fleeting beauty. Zauner finds space enough inside it for glimmers of hope.