In her previous two albums, Michelle Zauner, the singer-songwriter behind the solo musical project Japanese Breakfast, delved into the anguish and sorrow of losing her mother to cancer.
While she used to see “reds, blacks and melancholy blues” in her music, she now envisions vivid yellows and lots of warm tones. And her latest album, “Jubilee,” sees Michelle digging herself out of the trenches of grief, and finally reclaiming the sense of joy that had been missing in her life.
“I wanted to write about joy because my past albums were about the death of my mother and the grief and trauma,” she related in a recent video interview arranged by Blackstar, distributor of her label, De…
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