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\n “When people grieve or go through a great loss, there are just ugly parts that come out of people when they’re in survival mode,” Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner told NPR, reflecting on the complicated relationships behind her new album.
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<\/p>\n Pak Bae<\/p>\n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The music of the indie rock band Japanese Breakfast is suffused with longing. In songs from the group’s first LP, 2016’s Psychopomp<\/em>, author, musician and singer Michelle Zauner longs for her mother, who died of cancer more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n The 35-year-old Zauner explores other kinds of longing on the band’s latest album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)<\/em>. The lyrics tell stories of figures who yearn \u2014 some who get what they want, and others who do and wish they hadn’t.<\/p>\n “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,” says Zauner.<\/p>\n