Michelle Zauner, who performs as Japanese Breakfast and wrote the best-selling memoir “Crying in H Mart,” is up for two GRAMMYs tomorrow night. Revisit jiggyrap’s review of her album “Jubilee.”
, being left alone in a room with no doors. But her music seemed to present some sort of pathway forward, too. “Try not to get so righteous / about what’s fair for everyone,” she sings, on “The Body Is a Blade,” from 2017. “Find what’s left in you / Channel something good.”
Zauner’s new Japanese Breakfast album, “Jubilee,” is actively trying to channel good things. She has said outright that it is about joy, but that theme doesn’t manifest itself in a straightforward way, narratively or sonically. The quirky songs, which shuffle across the indie and pop planes, are as much about finding and sustaining joy as they are about experiencing it. The album is full of glowing arrangements and hopeful storytelling that seem to prompt a fulfilling out-of-body experience.
Zauner’s conscious move away from personal distress as a songwriting spur likely comes with its own unburdening. The creative process itself gets more fun. The songs are upbeat and lively, moving purposefully toward catharsis. “Paprika” relishes in the luxury of making music for a living, and that euphoria is infectious. On “Slide Tackle,” Zauner sings of clearing the mind of negativity. Most of the songs aren’t autobiographical, and Zauner engages in wider collaboration and experimentation.
There are also characters in the songwriting that couldn’t have appeared on previous Japanese Breakfast albums. On “Savage Good Boy,” Zauner performs from the perspective of a would-be tycoon cajoling a woman into his doomsday shelter as the world descends into chaos around them. “A billion dollar bunker for two / and when the city’s underwater / I will wine and dine you in the hollows / On a surplus of freeze-dried food,” she sings, gleefully.
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