Japanese Breakfast has released a new song titled “Orlando in Love,” like the song’s main character, fans are head over heels in love with it. Here’s what fans are saying on the official lyric video on YouTube.

“I love it! Sounds like an incredible album opener where you are about to be swept out to sea for a spell.” ~ @mcillustrator

“Were eating again brekkies, and its authentic japanese breakfast.” ~ @mr.CraZiHatz

“MELANCHOLY GIRLIES WE ARE SOOOOO BACK” ~ @libraluckylass

The new song arrives with the announcement of Japanese Breakfast’s forthcoming new album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), out March 21st via Dead Oceans. This will be the group’s fourth album and the follow-up to the band’s GRAMMY-nominated breakthrough album, Jubilee (2021). Along with the new music arrives the reveal of new tour dates for North America and Europe this year. Japanese Breakfast will start its 2025 tour at Coachella (April 12 & 19).

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Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills and tracked at Sound City in Los Angeles, fans can expect a more mature, moodier album that captures front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner in a transformative state coming off the highs of Jubilee which, along with her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart, flung her into mainstream success.

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 shares in a press release. “I was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die.”

With the album’s lead single, “Orlando in Love,” a dulcet ballad with a gorgeous bouquet of string arrangements, the lyrics read as though the song were truly made “for melancholy brunettes and sad women.”

According to the press release, “Orlando in Love” is 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 lyric video for “Orlando in Love.”

For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) TRACK LIST: 

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

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Japanese Breakfast 2025 Tour Dates

Apr 12 & 19 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music and Arts Festival

Apr 23 – Austin, TX @ Moody Theater (ACL Live) *

Apr 24 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom

Apr 26 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle *

Apr 27 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore *

Apr 28 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium *

May 3 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *

May 5 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall *

May 7 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *

May 9 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount *

May 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met *

Jun 24 – Oslo @ Rockefeller

Jun 25 – Stockholm @ Filadelfia

Jun 26 – Copenhagen @ VEGA

Jun 29 – Manchester @ Academy 1

Jun 30 – Glasgow @ Barrowland

Jul 3 – London @ O2 Academy Brixton

Jul 4-6 – Ewijk @ Down The Rabbit Hole 2025

Jul 8 – Paris @ Le Trianon

Jul 10-12 – Bilbao, ES @ Bilbao BBK Live

Aug 20 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre *

Aug 28 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic *

Aug 30 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater *

Sep 1 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum Theater *

Sep 9 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory *

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