Japanese Breakfast releases new single “Mega Circuit,” a song off her recently announced new album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), available March 21st via Dead Oceans. The song is accompanied by a video created by Michelle Zauner and frequent collaborator Adam Kolodny. “Mega Circuit” follows the release of “Orlando In Love.” 

“”Mega Circuit” was one of the first songs I wrote, intent on making a creepier, more guitar driven record,” Zauner explains. “The song is sort of an examination of contemporary masculinity, and explores a conflicted desire to embrace a generation that in the absence of positive role models has found refuge in violence and bigotry. We had the legendary Jim Keltner—who’s played on everything from ‘These Days,’ to ‘Here You Come Again’ to ‘Dream Weaver’—come in and play the fiercest shuffle you’ve ever heard.”

Japanese Breakfast has also announced new dates in support of For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) with  shows in Seattle, WA and Madison, WI as well as additional dates in Brooklyn, NY and Bristol, UK. and continues with headline shows across North America and Europe this year. The Melancholy Tour is the band’s first tour in three years, following the Jubilee Tour in 2022.

Barreling round the mega circuit
Kicking mud off ATVs
Plotting blood with your incel eunuchs
I could be the home you need

I’m gonna write my baby
A shuffle good

Shooting blanks off a blacktop surface
Blue light cast from a sodium beam
Sucked you off by the AC unit
Caught your breath while the evening steeped

Well I better write my baby a shuffle good
Or he’s gonna make me suffer the way I should
Deep in the soft hearts of young boys so pissed off and jaded
Carrying dull prayers of old men singing holier truths

TOUR DATES:
Apr 12 & 19 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music and Arts Festival
Apr 23 – Austin, TX @ Moody Theater (ACL Live) *
Apr 24 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom *
Apr 26 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle *
Apr 27 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore *
Apr 28 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium *
May 1 – Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed *
May 2 – Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed * – SOLD OUT
May 3 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *
May 5 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall *
May 6 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall *
May 7 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
May 9 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount * – SOLD OUT
May 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount * – SOLD OUT
May 11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount *
May 12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount *
May 15 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia Presented by Highmark *
May 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia Presented by Highmark *
Jun 21 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
Jun 24 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
Jun 25 – Stockholm, SE @ Filadelfia
Jun 26 – Copenhagen, DK @ VEGA
Jun 29 – Manchester, UK @ Academy 1
Jun 30 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland
Jul 1 – Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy Bristol
Jul 3 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
Jul 4-6 – Ewijk, NL @ Down The Rabbit Hole 2025
Jul 5 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
Jul 8 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon
July 10-12 – Bilbao, ES @ Bilbao BBK Live
Aug 23 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl *
Aug 27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic *
Aug 28 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic * – SOLD OUT
Aug 30 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater *
Sep 1 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum Theater *
Sep 2 – Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo *
Sep 3 – Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo *
Sep 6 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom *
Sep 9 – St Paul, MN @ The Palace Theater *
Sep 10 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee *

* w/ Ginger Root

Pre-order For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) by Japanese Breakfast HERE