Japanese Breakfast "For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)" CS/LP (2025)
Details: Japanese Breakfast "For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)" cassette, Frosted Shadow or Black LP variants (Dead Oceans, 2025). New stock, sealed.
Description: "Over the course of 10 songs, Zauner grapples with the fickle nature of the muse — whether you’re a long-ago poet or a small-town strummer. See “Orlando in Love,” a Greek legend of a track with silky, old-movie strings and playful percussion that tells the tale of the titular poet and the sirens that drag him down in the end: “Singing his name with all the sweetness of a mother/Leaving him breathless and then drowned.” And then there’s “Mega Circuit,” a country-tinged, yet ominous tune about ATV-riding “incel eunuchs” and the women who yearn to “write my baby/A shuffle good.”
Romance is a double-edged sword here — on the delicate “Leda,” which hums with death and destruction when you recall that the titular heroine was raped by Zeus in swan form — and on “Winter in L.A.,” a sweet and swinging track about wishing to be the kind of girl who loves the sun. With love and loss, inspiration and indignation, For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) is a folk tale, a small-town barroom yarn, a gothic novel, and a ghost story. Don’t even try to pin her down."--Brenna Ehrlick, Rolling Stone
Grade: M (new stock)
TRACK LISTING:
01. Here is Someone
02. Orlando in Love
03. Honey Water
04. Mega Circuit
05. Little Girl
06. Leda
07. Picture Window
08. Men in Bars
09. Winter in LA
10. Magic Mountain