Japanese Breakfast have unveiled new album For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), their first in four years, and unveiled a host of UK shows alongside a larger tour of the US and Europe. Tickets for the band’s UK gigs go on sale at 10am on Friday 10 January. Scroll to the bottom of this article for a detailed list of Japanese Breakfast’s UK tour dates. 

For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) is Japanese Breakfast’s fourth LP and follows on from their 2021 release Jubilee. Set for release on Friday 21 March via Dead Oceans, its announcement comes after a flood of fruitful side projects propelled bandleader Michelle Zauner to stardom, including her best-selling memoir Crying In H Mart (which is set to be adapted into a feature-length movie directed by Flowers and The White Lotus star Will Sharpe) and her haunting score for the videogame Sable. Zauner also released a song for the Marvel television series Agatha All Along in 2024. 

The UK leg of the tour will bring Japanese Breakfast to Manchester’s Academy 1 on Sunday 29 June, Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom on Monday 30 June and London’s O2 Academy Brixton on Thursday 3 July.

Listen to the lyric video for the band’s brand-new single ‘Orlando In Love’ below. 

Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) tracklist: 

1 ‘Here Is Someone’
2 ‘Orlando In Love’
3 ‘Honey Water’
4 ‘Mega Circuit’
5 ‘Little Girl’
6 ‘Leda’
7 ‘Picture Window’
8 ‘Men In Bars’ [featuring Jeff Bridges]
9 ‘Winter In LA’
10 ‘Magic Mountain’

Japanese Breakfast’s 2025 UK tour dates: 

Academy 1, Manchester, Sunday 29 June
Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, Monday 30 June
O2 Academy Brixton, London, Thursday 3 July 

Tickets for Japanese Breakfast’s UK tour dates in 2025 go on sale at 10am on Friday 10 January; main picture: Pak Bae.