Watch Japanese Breakfast perform "Paprika" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

JAPANESE BREAKFAST PERFORMS "PAPRIKA" ON JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! FULL US TOUR KICKS OFF IN TWO WEEKS JUBILEE OUT NOW VIA DEAD OCEANS CRYING IN H MART OUT NOW VIA KNOPF

Last night, Japanese Breakfast, the musical project of multi-hyphenate Michelle Zauner, performed "Paprika," the opening track from her acclaimed new album, on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jubilee, which has been named one of the best records of the year so far by The Wallstreet Journal, NPR, Billboard, SPIN, UPROXX, Hypebeast, MXDWN, Slant Magazine and more, is out now via Dead Oceans. Zauner's New York Times Best Selling memoir, Crying In H Mart, is out now via Knopf. The unflinching and powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity, is set to be adapted for the screen by MGM's Orion Pictures. Additionally, Japanese Breakfast has expanded their summer and fall tours, which kick off on July 21st in Silver Spring, MD, and go through 2022. All dates below.

PRAISE FOR JUBILEE: “Easily her best album and one of the best records of the year so far.” -The Wall Street Journal "Zauner’s best, most incandescent release yet. Her voice sparkles." -The New Yorker “We may be contending with grief and illness on a mass scale, but Japanese Breakfast gives us a way to resist sorrow.” -Pitchfork, Best New Track "One of the most compelling indie-pop artists around. Jubilee is Japanese Breakfast's most ecstatic-sounding-sound album to date." -Rolling Stone “How’s it feel to witness Zauner at the height of her powers? Captivating every heart? Projecting her visions to strangers who feel it, who listen, who linger on every word? Oh, it’s a rush!" -Stereogum "Jubilee is bigger, poppier, and synthier than her previous albums — something dance-floor ready, for whenever that comes back." -New York Magazine's The Cut "Not only is it Zauner’s most accomplished album to date, it might very well be the best indie record of the year." -UPROXX "A sonically expansive collection of technicolored songs about joy in all its forms." -Esquire "Zauner is choosing joy, uncompromisingly and in big fistful-sized amounts. Jubilee is her tenderhearted and wide exploration of the emotion." -Nylon "Her unusually, abundantly joyous new album Jubilee is the light at the end of a prolonged stay in the darkness." -MTV "Big, bright and bold... It’s the sound of coming out of darkness and acknowledging your misery to find your light." -Alternative Press " This bright slice of indie-pop boasts a hard-won, joyful attitude that's contagious." -Billboard "A big step forward" -The Ringer “Cuts through her ubiquitous dreaminess with an effectively direct message. Sincerity is an uphill battle, and Michelle Zauner is committed to the climb.” -The FADER "Zauner’s production skills have leveled up in every category." -Consequence of Sound "Head-spinningly perfect pop" -Under The Radar

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. Now, at the start of a new decade, Japanese Breakfast is ready to fight for happiness, an all-too-scarce resource in our seemingly crumbling world. How does she do it? With a joyful noise. Jubilee bursts with the most wide-ranging arrangements of Zauner’s career. Each song unfurls a new aspect of her artistry. In the years leading up to Jubilee, Zauner also took theory lessons and studied piano in earnest for the first time, in an effort to improve her range as a songwriter: “I’ve never wanted to rest on any laurels. I wanted to push it as far as it could go, inviting more people in and pushing myself as a composer, a producer, and arranger.” Throughout Jubilee, Zauner is hardly fictionalizing her lyrics, instead pouring her own life into the universe of each song to tell real stories, and allowing those universes, in turn, to fill in the details. Joy, change, evolution—these things take real-time, and real effort. And Japanese Breakfast is here for it.

TOUR DATES: 7/21 - Silver Spring, MD @ The Filmore ^ 7/22 - Richmond, VA @ The National ^ 7/23 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel ^ 7/24 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade ^ 7/25 - Birmingham, AL @ Saturn ^ 7/26 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle ^ - SOLD OUT 7/28 - New Haven, CT @ Westville Music Bowl + 7/29 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes ^ - SOLD OUT 7/30 - Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall ^ - SOLD OUT 7/31 - Omaha, NE @ MAHA Music Festival 8/2 - Holyoke, MA @ Gateway City Arts ^ - SOLD OUT 8/3 - Rochester, NY @ Anthology ^ 8/4 - Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew's Hall ^ 8/5 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre ^ 8/6 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^ - SOLD OUT 8/7 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^ - SOLD OUT 8/8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^ - SOLD OUT 8/10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ~ - SOLD OUT 8/11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ~ 8/28 - Lexington, KY @ Railbird Festival 9/9 - Boston, MA @ Royale * 9/10 - Boston, MA @ Royale * - SOLD OUT 9/11 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Summer Stage - SOLD OUT 9/12 - Harrisburg, PA @ Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center * 9/14 - Columbus, OH @ The Athenaeum Theatre * 9/15 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT 9/16 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT 9/17 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall * 9/18 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre * 9/19 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave * 9/21 - Ogden, UT @ Ogden Twilight * - SOLD OUT 9/23 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Festival 9/24 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall * 9/25 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune * - SOLD OUT 9/26 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune * - SOLD OUT 9/27 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune * 9/28 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom * 9/30 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom * 10/1 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom - SOLD OUT 10/2 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent - SOLD OUT 10/3 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent - SOLD OUT 10/4 - San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park * 10/5 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl * 10/7 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf * - SOLD OUT 10/8 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theater * 10/9 - Lawrence, KC @ Granada Theater * 10/10 - St Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall * 10/11 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * - SOLD OUT 10/12 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * 10/14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * 10/15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * -SOLD OUT 10/16 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * - SOLD OUT 10/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel * 10/30 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall 10/31 Austin, TX @ Levitation 2021 11/3 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress (Outdoor Plaza) 11/4 Tempe, AZ @ Sun Devil Stadium (Coca-Cola Sun Deck) 11/7 Berkeley, CA @ The UC Theatre 11/9 Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades 11/11 Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery 11/12 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Madonna Inn 11/13 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst 11/15 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House - SOLD OUT 11/16 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House 3/25 - Bristol @ SXW 3/26 - Manchester @ Academy 2 3/27 - Glasgow @ St. Luke's 3/28 - Leeds @ Brudenell Community Room 3/30 - London @ Kentish Town Forum ^ w/ Mannequin Pussy + w/ Bright Eyes & Lucy Dacus  * w/ Luna Li ~ w/ Spirit of the Beehive

JAPANESE BREAKFAST JUBILEE DEAD OCEANS JUNE 4TH, 2021 BUY THE ALBUM 1. Paprika 2. Be Sweet 3. Kokomo, IN 4. Slide Tackle 5. Posing in Bondage 6. Sit 7. Savage Good Boy 8. In Hell 9. Tactics 10. Posing for Cars

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