The last Japanese breakfast album, JubileeThe band was largely placed A new level of fame. They were sold theaters around the world, and two recorded Grammy nominations It fell on tons of the end of the year’s lists that celebrated the sound of the cheerful LP.

But this type of reputation is bad to give anterior women Michel ZonerThe profile also raised by the publication of 2021 of Her best -selling notesand Crying in H Mart. “Over the past ten years, I really bowed in my work as a way to keep the Earth focus, and sometimes you can do it a lot,” Zoner told Zoner, 35, exclusively. US weekly. “I lost a lot of friends, and I had friends to die that year. My colleagues in the band had to miss a lot of important family things – every wedding, birthday, the life of our friends continued without us.”

Zauner does not complain of this success, but she knew that she wanted her conflicting feelings to inform the fourth Japanese breakfast album, For the sad brown sky (and sad women)Which fell on Friday, March 21.

“Part of that was very fun,” you remember after-Jubilee Years. “You can take a tour of the world, you have to do what you love, but then, there is another part of sadness, as you know? I only realized after 10 years of doing it really extensively [that] I am in the mid -thirties of my life and I want to have a family one day. I was trying to find out how I was going to lose sight of this device and find more balance in my life. “

while Jubilee Superfans may be surprised to hear such a main color shift For sorrow of sorrowZoner says her new songs are in fact in line with her virtual attitude towards life.

“Jubilee She explained: “It was a response to the feeling that I was always writing and the performance of sadness and gave myself permission to move forward and experience joy.” If I look at my life within ten years after my mother’s death, I think it is interesting to move from records about raw sadness and dismantle them to give myself permission to joy, and I now give myself permission to sorrow about different things in my life. I wanted to explore a darker painting, and I felt convenient to what I had in my life. “

Zauer also looked at books and art for inspiration while working on it For sorrow of sorrowIt includes Thomas Man‘s Magic Mountain Paintings Casbar David Friedrich. It may seem unusual to have the creation of literature and visual art for ideas while writing songs, but Zauner preferred her to listen to more music, for fear of someone else’s voice leakage in her own work.

“It is really interesting because I also wrote a book, and when I wrote this book, I read a lot,” I told we. “If you need to describe a rainy day, I will go to read a Marilyn Robinson Book or Richard Ford Book and read surgeries how they were talking about the weather. But when it comes to music, I tend to do so because I am very worried about copying something or being affected by it by mistake. “

Some seeds For sorrow of sorrow I planted through Jubilee The album cycle, which took the Japanese breakfast to Europe – the perfect place to go if you love literature and classic art.

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“We were going to museums on vacation days, and I really like to read the titles of paintings, and it is also clear that looking at them,” she said. “This must have truly affected me, because there are many references to Greek myths [on the album]And I was thinking a lot about the different paintings that I saw and that they held with me, or I would have participated in the painting notebook. “

I was especially shocked Jusepe de RiberaFour Furies paintings, two of which are located in Museo Del Prado in Madrid. (The other two lost.)

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“[I was] Zauner recalls: “The desire to know more about the four anger, and get to know the penalties of these men and what they did wrong and how they were with two hair, a kind of metal and cold.” Supreme holiness and great goodness, something you aspire to. However, all these stories revolve around these gods who feel a terrible and harsh way, which offends their strength to benefit from people and each other.

Zauner weave these stories all the time For grief waterS, its title is taken from the song “Orlando in Love”.

“[The songs are] She explained that all these accidental personal studies of people who think about their remorse or who sacrificed something that resulted in a result.

All this legendary death and destruction may seem heavy, like success Jubilee She was weighed on Zauner, but she says the opposite is true.

Somehow, I felt free from that because I did not necessarily want [my music] To become larger, “I was told we. “I do not want to tell it himself in any way, but at this stage of my career, I am very happy if this is as big as it is. It is a very big feeling for me, and I just wanted to achieve a real record for artists. I wanted to follow the type of music that I was interested in before I experience it. You feel that people can know when you are trying to do so.

For the sad brown sky (and sad women) Outside now.