Amoeba Music

We are having special listening parties to celebrate the release of the new Japanese Breakfast, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), at all three Amoeba stores Friday, March 21st at 5pm!
 

At 5pm, attendees will receive an exclusive limited edition Japanese Breakfast poster (one per person, while supplies last) and hear the new album with your fellow fans! The listening parties are free events and no RSVP is needed.

Amoeba San Francisco will also be doing a raffle to win fabulous prizes. SF will pick a winner after playing the album in its entirety. Must be present to win.

For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) will be released March 21st on CD, LP, and limited edition frosted shadow color vinyl via Dead Oceans.

Fans purchasing the new album on vinyl in-store at Amoeba that day will also receive a special album sleeve exclusive to the listening parties (while supplies last).

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. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined its predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration. The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.