For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) (Smoky Vinyl)

For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) (Smoky Vinyl)After a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfasts fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), marks the bands first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined its predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the

whites were often stunned by their power and pride while Indigenous people whispered

this new record saw Kiwanuka emerging from the emotional cocoon of his first album

The Supremes have always been synonymous with glamorous

For the men of the AIF

about to embark on a year of solitary wandering

were still alive on this

The river has played a crucial role in the history of the peoples who are now a part of the Russian Federation—and has united and divided the land through which it flows

Punctuated by the anthemic refrain of Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power

now in a stunning new sky-blue livery

whose singular vision remorselessly probed his own psychological depths

Jamie Drake’s stunning designs for the mayor’s residence

For Gerald