Michelle Zauner has announced the follow-up to Japanese Breakfast’s breakthrough album Jubilee with For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), produced by all-around cool dude Blake Mills. To celebrate the news, Zauner has unveiled first single “Orlando in Love,” a charming cut that begins with heavily strummed acoustic guitars before zooming out to reveal all sorts of beautifully appointed accents. She sings: “As if the sea had bore her to be / An ideal woman.”
According to the press release, the track is: “a riff on John Cheever’s riff on Orlando Innamorato, an unfinished epic made up of 68 ½ cantos by the Renaissance poet Matteo Maria Boiardo—the hero is a well meaning poet who parks his Winnebago by the sea and falls victim to a siren’s call, his 69th canto (even in the lofty realm of classical myth Zauner has a soft spot for innuendo).” Nice.
Japanese Breakfast has also announced a 2025 tour in support of the album, which will begin at Coachella. Check out “Orlando in Love” below and her tour dates here, and pre-order For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) here.
