Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

Jubilee is the third studio album by American indie pop band Japanese Breakfast, released in June 2021 via Dead Oceans.

From the moment she began writing her new album, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner knew that she wanted to call it ‘Jubilee’. After all, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time - a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor.

Zauner’s first two albums garnered acclaim for the way they grappled with anguish; ‘Psychopomp’ was written as her mother underwent cancer treatment, while ‘Soft Sounds From Another Planet’ took the grief she held from her mother’s death and used it as a conduit to explore the cosmos.

‘Jubilee’ finds Michelle Zauner embracing ambition and, with it, her boldest ideas and songs yet. Inspired by records like Bjork’s ‘Homogenic’, Zauner delivers bigness throughout - big ideas, big textures, colours, sounds and feelings.

This album is on black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, pressed in the US via Dead Oceans.