The track comes off the band’s forthcoming LP, For Melancholy Brunettes (& Unhappy Girls)
Japanese Breakfast appeared on The Tonight Present to carry out melancholy single “Orlando in Love.” The group, led by Michelle Zauner, was joined by a four-piece string part for the evocative efficiency, which harkened again to the track’s moody music video.
“Orlando in Love” is the lead single from Japanese Breakfast’s fourth album For Melancholy Brunettes (& Unhappy Girls), out March 21 by way of Lifeless Oceans. It marks the band’s first album because the launch of Grammy-nominated LP Jubilee, which dropped in 2021, and Zauner’s memoir Crying in H Mart. The ten-track album may even function “Males in Bars” that includes actor Jeff Bridges.
A movie primarily based on Zauner’s bestseller, Crying in H Mart, was introduced in June 2021, with Will Sharpe, of White Lotus Season Two fame, introduced to direct two years later. Nonetheless, final week Zauner confirmed that the movie is on pause.
“There have been points with the Hollywood strikes, and the director stepped away from the challenge,” she confirmed in an interview with Ssense. “I spent a yr engaged on the screenplay, which was a tricky however rewarding course of. I nonetheless have religion it would get made sometime, nevertheless it’s not occurring anytime quickly. Proper now, I’m specializing in different artistic initiatives, so the movie must wait.”
Japanese Breakfast will head on tour this spring in help of the brand new album, with performances at Coachella in April and stops in New York, San Francisco, Toronto, and Philadelphia. The American leg of the tour concludes in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sept. 9.
