• Japanese Breakfast : For Melancholy Brunettes(& Sad Women) | Complex Distractions | April 15, 2025, 9:37 a.m.
Michelle Zauner has had a pretty busy decade. Releasing her debut album Psychopomp with Japanese Breakfast(which also includes Craig Hendrix, Deven Craige, and Peter Bradley) in 2016. Then a gradua…

• Japanese Breakfast’s journey of growth: “Have fun. Don’t overthink it” | NME | April 15, 2025, 8 a.m.
Michelle Zauner on Japanese Breakfast's gorgeous new album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)’, lessons learnt from burnout and more.

• For Melancholy Brunettes (&sad women) by Japanese Breakfast Album Review | jmb208.substack.com
I saw Japanese Breakfast live on Halloween a few years ago and they dressed as the entire Lord of the Rings cast.

• Roundtable: A Review of Japanese Breakfast's 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)' | Atwood Magazine | April 10, 2025, 9:21 p.m.
Atwood Magazine's writers discuss Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album, ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women),’ an adventurous dive into mythos and a beautiful examination of identity, grief, and girlhood.

• Japanese Breakfast ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ album review | The Courier Online
One of our writers reviews Japanese Breakfast's newest album.

• Sad, Not Silent: Inside “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)” | The Dartmouth
Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album uses the lens of sadness to create a dynamic and reflective musical narrative. 

• Album Review: Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) | ACRN.com | April 7, 2025, 1:39 p.m.
By Grace Koennecke, Managing Editor [Dead Oceans; 2025] ★★★★★ Key Tracks: “Here is Someone,” “Honey Water,” “Picture Window” After making 2021’s Jubilee – a record that saw Japanese Breakfast steer…

• Japanese Breakfast on the books that shaped For Melancholy Brunettes (and sad women) | The FADER
Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner discusses how Infinite Jest, Frankenstein, and more inspired her album For Melancholy Brunettes (and sad women).

• For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women): Japanese Breakfast's Haunting Return | HeadStuff | April 4, 2025, 5:59 a.m.
Japanese Breakfast return with For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) - a haunting, intimate album exploring love, loss, and identity with ethereal folk.

• Japanese Breakfast is back to rock your world | The Miscellany News
Image courtesy of Racine Rieke ’28. It has been an awesome few months for indie rock. Everyone—from flipturn to Sam Fender—has been dropping albums, but the release I had marked on my Google Calendar for months was Japanese Breakfast’s fourth studio album: “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad wom

• Japanese Breakfast's Magical Gap Year | Nylon | April 2, 2025, noon
To make her new album, 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women),' Japanese Breakfast star and ‘Crying In H Mart’ author Michelle Zauner had to rethink her future.

• Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) | Still Listening
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) is complex - but not complicated - an assured and impressive achievement from a deeply thoughtful artist.  Japanese Breakfast - the vehicle for multi-talented singer, songwriter and author Michelle Zauner - is back with For Melancholy Brunet

• Album Review: Japanese Breakfast "For Melancholy Brunettes (and sad women)" | WERS 88.9FM | April 1, 2025, 3:42 p.m.
After a brief hiatus and a New York Times bestselling non-fiction release, indie-alternative band Japanese Breakfast brings their newest album

• Japanese Breakfast gets stunningly introspective on 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)' | The Daily Targum | April 1, 2025, 1:18 a.m.
After a long-awaited return from hiatus, author and songwriter Michelle Zauner — frontman of the band Japanese Breakfast — graces us with a new album, "For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)." While the album clocks in at just 32 minutes across 10 tracks, each song courses with a distinct emotional weight that's fleeting in length but timeless in impact.

• Wistful americana meets literary elegance in Japanese Breakfast’s ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ | Katie Gavin reflects on complexities of love, grief on solo album - The Emory Wheel
The Emory Wheel is the only independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University, since 1919.

• Interview: Japanese Breakfast on new album 'For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)'. | Coup De Main Magazine | March 31, 2025, 9:11 p.m.
"A lot of these songs, and songs I've written in the past, are sometimes from perspectives of people that I have a very difficult time understanding," shares Japanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner about her songwriting process.

• Album Review: Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) | Highway Queens | March 30, 2025, 8:56 a.m.
The word melancholy originated as a way to describe a state of deep sadness and introspection, where despair lives for no particular reason at all – such a place where poets and artists have …

• We’ve Got A File On You: Japanese Breakfast | Stereogum | March 19, 2025, 2:50 p.m.
Michelle Zauner became a celebrity pretty fast. In 2021, her third album as Japanese Breakfast, Jubilee, was swept up in the indie singer-songwriter mainstream crossover that had already made...

• Love and Loss ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ by Japanese Breakfast | The Comenian
In the indie-pop scene, Japanese Breakfast remains quite the mystical collective, headed by the ever-talented lead singer and writer Michelle Zauner. Since 2016, the band has supplied album after album of earworm hitters, reaching their jubilant peak with 2021’s Jubilee.  After four years, the band’s fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), is a...

• Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner Gives You Permission to Be Sad | W Magazine | March 27, 2025, noon
With 'For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women),' the singer-songwriter explores the nuances of sorrow—just like the greats before her.

• Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) | Northern Transmissions | March 19, 2025, 7:45 p.m.
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) by Japanese Breakfast album review by Michael Mannix for Northern Transmissions, the LP drops 3/21

• Review: Japanese Breakfast’s new album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ has a dreamy sonic atmosphere | The Eastern Echo
Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album, “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)“ was true to its title with a dreamy, atmospheric sound. Although the overall album was a little too short, needing longer songs and more lyricism. Nonetheless, it was a solid release from the band. 

• Review: Japanese Breakfast — For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) | SLUG Magazine | March 26, 2025, 9:20 p.m.
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) is a slow burn meditation on the consequences of desire, reconnecting with an estranged father and reconciling with disloyalty from a lover.

• Japanese Breakfast Brings Sadness to Light in ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ | The Loyola Phoenix | Loyola Phoenix | March 26, 2025, 10:45 a.m.
"For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)" is an ensemble of short stories and synthetic sounds.

• Japanese Breakfast's Latest Album Solidifies Michelle Zauner As the Poet Laureate of Sadness | Autostraddle | March 25, 2025, 5:54 p.m.
Rarely does sadness sound this big, instrumentally, on an album with the kind of indie-pop, alt-country, folk-rock twists this one has, and even more rarely do we get an album so clear in its purpose.

• Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) | The Needle Drop | March 25, 2025, 5:07 p.m.
Arguably Jbrekkie's most holistic set of songs yet.

• Watch Japanese Breakfast perform 'For Melancholy Brunettes' songs at theatrical museum show | NME | March 25, 2025, 3:03 p.m.
They are due to hit the road for a global tour next month

• Japanese Breakfast - 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)' | Mystic Sons | March 25, 2025, 8:08 a.m.
8/10 On 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)', Michelle Zauner—better known as Japanese Breakfast—trades the shimmering optimism of 'Jubilee' for something richer, murkier, and exquisitely restrained. The new album is less a sequel and more a mirror turned inward: reflecting long silences, unspoken longings, and the emotional weight of time passing. In place of 'Jubilee'’s wide-eyed effervescence, 'For Melancholy Brunettes...' presents a slow-burning exploration of vulnerability and poetic unrest.

• Japanese Breakfast is reflective on their fourth album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’ | The Signal
In “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women),” released on March 21, band frontwoman Michelle Zauner takes a darker approach, with a heavy guitar focus as compared to her electronic-pop background. In an interview with NPR, she describes themes of yearning explored on the album through various storylines. “All of these characters succumb to some sort of temptation or disrupt a balance in their lives and are then grappling with the consequences or regrets of that decision-making,” she said.

• Review: For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) – Japanese Breakfast | Real Goblin | March 24, 2025, 4:08 p.m.
I’m sorry, I wasn’t familiar with your game. Review Score: A March 24th / 2024 – Picture this. It’s a Sunday afternoon. I’m cleaning (or trying to). A game on my compu…

• Japanese Breakfast Plays 'Melancholy Brunettes' Live Debuts At Unique Museum Event: Watch | Stereogum | March 24, 2025, 2:38 p.m.
On Friday, Japanese Breakfast released the lovely new album For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women). Next month, Michelle Zauner and her band will head out on a proper tour that’ll kick off with a pair of sets at the two Coachella weekends. As a prelude to all of that, Japanese Breakfast played a special one-off album-release show at El Museo Del Barrio in New York on Saturday night. They made a grand occasion of it.

• ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’: A review   | The Daily Campus | March 24, 2025, 10 a.m.
A mythological tale of woe and love, Michelle Zauner’s fourth studio album as lead singer and songwriter of indie pop band Japanese Breakfast, “For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)” evokes a…

• The memento mori art inspiring Japanese Breakfast's new album | wallpaper.com | March 24, 2025, 9:49 a.m.
Singer Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast is inspired by 17th-century Dutch vanitas works for her new album cover

• Japanese Breakfast: Album For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) | Spectrum Culture | March 24, 2025, 5:05 a.m.
For Melancholy Brunettes is a surprising shift from Michelle Zauner’s Japanese Breakfast, but once the shock wears off, you’re left with something truly beautiful.

• Album Review: Japanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) | Beats Per Minute
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• Japanese Breakfast’s New Album Is ‘For Melancholy Brunettes’ | Forbes Advisor
Japanese Breakfast's fourth studio album 'For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women)' is out now.

• Japanese Breakfast Performs An Intimate ‘Melancholy’ Recital In N.Y.C. | Forbes Advisor
The indie pop group led by Michelle Zauner played a special live unplugged version of their new album 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).'

• Japanese Breakfast's 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)' Sees Swooning Beauty in the Sorrow | Exclaim!
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• Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) - Album Review | SPITVALVE | March 23, 2025, 7:17 p.m.
How can one be truly melancholic when they have the gorgeous soundscapes of Japanese Breakfast at their fingertips. Japanese Breakfast is a dream pop project, formed by Michelle Zauner back in 2013.

• Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) album review — a shimmering, sketch-like affair | Financial Times | March 22, 2025, 5 a.m.
Michelle Zauner’s first album since the publication of her bestselling memoir ‘Crying in H Mart’

• Japanese Breakfast’s “For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)” Explores the Beauty of Sadness | stagedhaze.com | March 21, 2025, 11 a.m.
Japanese Breakfast has always had a knack for turning personal stories into dreamy, immersive soundscapes. With For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), released via Dead Oceans, Michelle Zauner…

• Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner embraces melancholy in new album | Hawai'i Public Radio | March 21, 2025, 9:01 a.m.
With a new album, Michelle Zauner tells NPR she is finally finding balance between all the things she yearns for: her career goals, a connection to family and a connection to her ancestral home of Korea.