Japanese Breakfast - For Melancholy Brunettes ( & Sad Women ) - CASSETTES

This is a limited edition, one-time color pressing of this classic live record from Austin City Limits. Celebrate 50 years of this iconic TV show with a RED CASSETTE. Details 1. Ring of Fire 2. Folsom Prison Blues 3. Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down 4. I Walk the Line 5. The Wall 6. Long Black Veil 7. Big River 8. I'll Go Somewhere and Sing My Songs Again 9. Let Him Roll 10. Ballad of Barbara 11. Sam Stone 12. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky 13. Where Did We Go Right? 14. I Walk the Line

After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfast's fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), marks the band's first proper studio . Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined it's predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration. The result is an artistic statement of purpose a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.For Melancholy Brunettes follows a transformative period in Zauner's life during which her 2x GRAMMY nominated breakthrough album Jubilee and her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart catapulted her into the cultural mainstream, delivering on her deepest artistic ambitions. Reflecting on that success, Zauner came to appreciate the irony of desire, which so often commingles bliss and doom. InchI felt seduced by getting what I always wanted,Inch she says. InchI was flying too close to the sun, and I realized if I kept going I was going to die.InchThe plight of Icarus and other such condemned ones lends For Melancholy Brunettes it's most persistent theme, the perils of desire. Like light dispersed, it's spectral parts take the album's characters through cycles of temptation, transgression and retribution. On InchOrlando in LoveInch - 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). InchHoney WaterInch plum

The breakout success of 2016's Puberty 2 saw Mitski hailed as the new vanguard of indie rock, the one to save the genre from the white dudes who've historically dominated it. But the often overlooked aspect of being a rising star is the sheer amount of work that goes into it. InchI had been on the road for a long time, which is so isolating, and had to run my own business at the same time,Inch Mitski explains, Incha lot of this record was me not having any feelings, being completely spent, but then trying to rally myself and wake up and get back to Mitski. I was feeling really nihilistic and trying to make pop songs.InchWe want our artists to be strong but we also expect them to be vulnerable. Rather than avoiding this dilemma, she addresses directly the power that comes from appearing impenetrable and loneliness that follows. InchWith a lot of the romantic infatuations I've had,Inch she says, Inchwhen I look back, I wonder, Did I want them or did I want to be them? Did I love them or did I want to absorb whatever power they had? I decided I could just be my own cowboy figure that I so desire.Inch In Be The Cowboy, delves into the loneliness of being a symbol and the loneliness of being someone, and how it can feel so much like being no one. Details 1. Geyser 2. Why Didn't You Stop Me? 3. Old Friend 4. A Pearl 5. Lonesome Love 6. Remember My Name 7. Me and My Husband 8. Come Into the Water 9. Nobody 10. Pink in the Night 11. A Horse Named Cold Air 12. Washing Machine Heart 13. Blue Light 14. Two Slow Dancers