Japanese Breakfast & The Story Behind 2x Grammy Nominated "Jubilee"
·
·
“Jubilee” by Japanese Breakfast debuted at number 56 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album and Best New Artist at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.
The band has enjoyed commercial success as a result of a range of sounds, tones, and lyrics that have been able to captivate a sizable musical audience from all over the world.
"Jubilee" is an album that delivers a unique approach to funk, offering a fresh and invigorating sound that sets it apart from other albums in the genre, all thanks to the delicate yet crucial electric guitar on top of the harmonically rich layers of synths, and the drums that continue to march on from behind.
Couple that with Michelle Zauner's almost spontaneous and treble-oriented vocals and it becomes clear why Jubilee has been their most commercially successful album to date.
According to Zauner the theme for their album “Jubilee” was “joy” and it was “definitely the best album” that she had ever made but was still humble enough to further claim that she did not anticipate that the band was going to be nominated for the Grammys.
Apart from joy, the album expresses a variety of emotions. Her songs on sadness immediately became the ones that people connected with the most.
Zauner lost her mother to cancer when she was 25 years old, a few years after also losing her aunt to the disease. ‘Psychopomp’, filled with honest lyrics and straightforward guitar riffs, vocals and dramatic chord turnarounds captures grief in an extremely personal way.
She draws her inspiration from an interesting array of artists. “When I think of artists that I really love, like Björk, Kate Bush and David Bowie, you always associate them with creating a type of character with style, and I wanted to include that type of thoughtfulness with myself.”
“Nothing impacted me so profoundly as the first time I got my hands on a DVD of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Karen O was the first icon that I worshipped who looked like me. She was half-Korean and half-white, with an unrivaled showmanship that obliterated the docile Asian stereotype.”
Also read: How Domi & JD Beck Are Revolutionizing Jazz Music For The Modern Era
Comments