no_better Posted Monday at 03:58 PM Author Posted Monday at 03:58 PM First single Orlando in Love out tomorrow
Uncatena Posted Monday at 04:15 PM Posted Monday at 04:15 PM (edited) March 21 Edited Monday at 04:15 PM by Uncatena 1
houndsoflove Posted Monday at 04:24 PM Posted Monday at 04:24 PM being released right before my birthday THANK YOU MICHELLE!!!!
SupremeGoddess Posted Monday at 04:42 PM Posted Monday at 04:42 PM (edited) ngl the album title does leave me a bit disappointed but i know the music will be a major serve pull thru mama. time to go full fledge psychedelic rock with folk influences Edited Monday at 04:42 PM by SupremeGoddess
sunbathinganimal Posted Monday at 04:53 PM Posted Monday at 04:53 PM (edited) hate the cover and title but perchdt Edited Monday at 04:53 PM by sunbathinganimal
Venice B Posted Monday at 05:05 PM Posted Monday at 05:05 PM okay the title is awful but i have high hopes for this, jubilee is one of my favorite albums ever so please deliver miss michelle
Daddy Posted Monday at 05:06 PM Posted Monday at 05:06 PM This and Eusexua being early AOTY contenders already Her last album Jubilee was kinda perfection. A 10/10. Her magnum opus. My most listened to album on Spotify lol
no_better Posted Monday at 05:12 PM Author Posted Monday at 05:12 PM For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women) out March 21st via Dead Oceans Via Rough Trade: Spoiler 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. For Melancholy Brunettes follows a transformative period in Zauner's life during which her 2x Grammy nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart catapulted her into the cultural mainstream, delivering on her deepest artistic ambitions. Reflecting on that success, Zauner came to appreciate the irony of desire, which so often commingles bliss and doom. "I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted," she says. "I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die." The plight of Icarus and other such condemned ones lends For Melancholy Brunettes its most persistent theme, the perils of desire. Like light dispersed, its spectral parts take the album's characters through cycles of temptation, transgression and retribution. On "Orlando in Love" — 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). "Honey Water" plumbs the quiet rage of a woman married to an unfaithful man, watching him cede again and again to lust like a base insect perpetuating its own demise. Sadness is indeed the dominant emotional key of this record, but it is sadness of a rarified form: the pensive, prescient sadness of melancholy, in which the recognition of life's essentially tragic character occurs with sensitivity to its fleeting beauty. Zauner finds space enough inside it for glimmers of hope. They are the consolations of mortals that poets before her have called out to and that poets after will continue to rediscover: love and labor, and though they run like tonic resolutions through the record's many episodes, they sound most saliently on its final song, "Magic Mountain," an engagement with Thomas Mann's famous novel of the same name. For her, making any work feels like scaling a mountain, but from the perch of For Melancholy Brunettes, she surveys the future.
BlackJesus Posted Monday at 05:52 PM Posted Monday at 05:52 PM this thread made me go give her a listen. I'm perched
Ewan Chaos Posted Monday at 05:58 PM Posted Monday at 05:58 PM Cute title, not great album cover (esp the text). Oh well, album's gonna be amazing I'm sure if we're going off of her past two albums
Otana Posted Monday at 06:21 PM Posted Monday at 06:21 PM so not for the gays huh? that's a choice jkkkk
sam.teas Posted 22 hours ago Posted 22 hours ago On 1/5/2025 at 6:40 PM, sam.teas said: the file audio uploaded on her website it titled Oil. so maybe it's something related to the title or to the era well, so, Oil stands for Orlando In Love
AshleyLovescats887 Posted 21 hours ago Posted 21 hours ago (edited) 4 minutes ago, no_better said: 55 minutes Oh wow, so this project is gonna be her longest I wonder how many songs we're gonna get Edited 21 hours ago by AshleyLovescats887
no_better Posted 21 hours ago Author Posted 21 hours ago 4 minutes ago, AshleyLovescats887 said: Oh wow, so this project is gonna be her longest I wonder how many songs we're gonna get Aw sorry sis, I meant 55 minutes until the first single (3pm GMT)! Tracklist and album length yet TBA
no_better Posted 20 hours ago Author Posted 20 hours ago (edited) I would like this photo as a cover much more and without the writing The song is very pretty! Edited 20 hours ago by no_better
FlyPirate Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago (edited) omg the lead is SO GOOD but too short as is the album btw... 32 min girl tf! anyway, please post all the vinyl variants pls so far -standard black -standard frosted black -deluxe frosted white -deluxe dream blue splash -spotify fans first cherry bomb splash does the deluxe come with more tracks or is it just the packaging? Edited 20 hours ago by FlyPirate
makeawish Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago 2 hours ago, FlyPirate said: as is the album btw... 32 min girl tf! those of us who remember psychopomp know that this is an epic single is fantastic, will not call it a bop cos it feels inappropriate but it is gorgeous
AshleyLovescats887 Posted 11 hours ago Posted 11 hours ago 9 hours ago, no_better said: Aw sorry sis, I meant 55 minutes until the first single (3pm GMT)! Tracklist and album length yet TBA Oh BYE today i saw the tracklist only being 10 tracks and I was like "Oh damn, are the lengths gonna be Ethel's 'Perverts'?" 'Orlando In Love' might actually be one of my favorite songs from Japanese Breakfast, it's so dreamy and poetic. Very excited for 'Honey Water', 'Men In Bars', 'Magic Mountain' and 'Picture Window'
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