Japanese Breakfast Confirms 2025 Tour Dates Supporting Newly Announced Album

Japanese Breakfast will release their fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), on March 21 through Dead Oceans. The band will tour extensively in support of the album, which features the lead single, “Orlando In Love.”

Japanese Breakfast is led by frontwoman and primary songwriter Michelle Zauner, who previously recorded albums in makeshift spaces like warehouses and trailers. Working with skilled producer Blake Mills, Zauner recorded For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) at the historic Sound City in Los Angeles, making it the first Japanese Breakfast album made in a proper recording studio. Actor/musician Jeff Bridges appears on the track “Men in Bars.”

The follow-up to her successful 2022 album Jubilee sees Zauner writing about darker topics on the 10 songs making up the For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) tracklist. “The plight of Icarus and other such condemned ones lends” the album “its most persistent theme, the perils of desire” according to press materials.

“I felt seduced by getting what I always wanted,” Zauner revealed. “I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die.”

The lead single “Orlando In Love” was inspired by “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).”

Watch the official lyric video for the album’s lead single “Orlando In Love”:

Japanese Breakfast will tour across North America and Europe this year in support of For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women). The Melancholy Tour will be the band’s first tour in three years.

Zauner kicks off their tour with two appearances at Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California on April 12 and 19. Following the festival appearances, Japanese Breakfast heads to Austin on April 23 and Dallas on April 24. The tour continues with shows in Atlanta on April 26, Charlotte (North Carolina) on April 27 and Nashville on April 28.

May begins with a performance in Detroit on May 3, followed by Toronto on May 5. The band then heads to Boston on May 7, Brooklyn on May 9 and Philadelphia on May 16.

The European leg of the tour takes place in June and July. The tour returns to North America in August with shows in San Diego on August 20, San Francisco on August 28, and Bend (Oregon) on August 30. September performances include Vancouver on September 1 and Minneapolis on September 9.

Presale tickets go on sale Wednesday, January 8. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, January 10 at 10 a.m. local venue time. Ticketing links and additional tour date information follow below.

For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) Tracklist

1. Here is Someone
2. Orlando in Love
3. Honey Water
4. Mega Circuit
5. Little Girl
6. Leda
7. Picture Window
8. Men in Bars (Feat. Jeff Bridges)
9. Winter in LA
10. Magic Mountain