Japanese Breakfast

A single moniker for Philadelphia musician Michelle Zauner, Japan Breakfast began being a monthlong, song-a-day composing challenge throughout a break from her indie rock-band Little Big Group. That led to 2013’s June, a romantic group of melodic, electrical guitar-accompanied lo-fi music released on cassette by Ranch Information. She continued to create single and with her music group, with Japanese Breakfast’s self-released Where Can be My Great Big Sense? as well as the Seagreen Information cassette American Audio both pursuing in the summertime of 2014 just before Small Big League’s Tropical Jinx came that October. Having a assorted palette including markedly larger, synth-boosted noises that bridged lo-fi and indie pop, Japanese Breakfast’s Yellow K Information debut, Psychopomp, premiered in the springtime of 2016.