Japanese Breakfast have shared a new video for ‘Orlando in Love’, the lead single from her upcoming fourth album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)’.
The new record, set for release via Dead Oceans on 21st March, was produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills at Sound City in Los Angeles. The video was directed by Michelle Zauner herself, with cinematography from Peter Ash Lee.
“‘Orlando in Love’ is made up of a hodgepodge of odd references,” Zauner explains. “The title comes from an epic poem by Matteo Maria Boiardo called Orlando Innamorato, which ends abruptly at 68.5 cantos because Italy was invaded by French troops, and that’s as far as he got before he had to flee. I fell in love with the title and envisioned a sort of whimsical, foolish male protagonist who lives by the sea in a Winneabeago RV and is seduced by a siren. After writing it, it felt like the perfect thesis statement for an album that is largely about people, often men, who find themselves seduced by temptation and are duly punished for it.”
“Somewhere along the way I came across Eduard von Grützner’s painting ‘The Connoisseur’ and I started to picture Orlando as a daydreaming friar who can’t help but tipple of the Abbey’s brews. He dreams of his siren and despite the dream’s foreboding imagery, decides he must run and find her. The siren is played by my dear friend Jungle, whom I spent most of my time with in Korea this year. The friars are played by Missy Dabice from Mannequin Pussy, making her return to the Jbrekkie Cinecanon, and Molly Germer. We filmed half of the video in Korea with Peter Ash Lee, who shot the cover of Jubilee, and half of it at my alma mater, Bryn Mawr College, with my longtime collaborator and DP, Adam Kolodny.”
Her dates in full read:
APRIL
12 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Indio, US
19 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Indio, US
23 Moody Theater (ACL Live), Austin, US*
24 South Side Ballroom, Dallas, US*
26 Tabernacle, Atlanta, US*
27 The Fillmore, Charlotte, US*
28 Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, US*
MAY
2 Salt Shed, Chicago, US*
3 The Fillmore, Detroit, US*
5 Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada*
6 Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada*
7 MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston, US*
9 Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, US*
10 Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, US*
11 Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, US*
15 The Met Philadelphia Presented by Highmark, Philadelphia, US*
16 The Met Philadelphia Presented by Highmark, Philadelphia, US*
JUNE
21 Summerfest, Milwaukee, US
24 Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway
25 Filadelfia, Stockholm, Sweden
26 VEGA, Copenhagen, Denmark
29 Academy 1, Manchester, UK
30 Barrowland, Glasgow, UK
JULY
3 O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
4 Down The Rabbit Hole 2025, Ewijk, Netherlands
8 Le Trianon, Paris, France
10 Bilbao BBK Live, Bilbao, Spain
AUGUST
23 Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, US*
27 The Masonic, San Francisco, US*
28 The Masonic, San Francisco, US*
30 Hayden Homes Amphitheater, Bend, US*
SEPTEMBER
1 Orpheum Theater, Vancouver, Canada*
6 The Mission Ballroom, Denver, US*
9 The Palace Theater, St Paul, US*
*w/ Ginger Root
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