Diandra Reviews It All

Like concert, like album, Japanese Breakfast serve angst in a musically digestible form. Their new album, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, comes out this week as another notch to Michelle Zauner’s crusade to be the cherubic voice of alienation. While she sings as soft a stuffed animal, when catches a wind of rage, you can bet that toy is going to be shredded. Moreover, you, the listeners, zero in to hear an album that truly show being lonely is a common, spiritual disease.
Japanese Breakfast – Road Head (Official Video)

Soft Sounds From Another Planet is a work of self-reflection that looks out at the cosmos in search of healing, finding inspiration in science fiction, outer space, and the Mars One Project. “The band’s uses of cosmic, fantasy sounds gives off the dreaminess they need to approach the seriousness of feeling like an alien on your own earth. Steps”, “Till Death”, and “Machinist” are like staples in Zauner’s giant, ski-fi paper on how being young is an awkward experience. You either A) do not have enough wisdom to let go of others’ silly judgments or the ones you give to yourself or B) you do not want such a wisdom. The strangeness of angst is that it can be addicting and satisfying even if it is not empowering. From “Jimmy Fallon Big” to “Road Head”, Zauner sings to wanting to be larger than life while simultaneously feeling crushed by it. This embodies what every high-school teen or twenty-something feels; wanting to be bigger and beyond what holsd them back, even if it means your life or skin. We all want to be famous or royalty because its seems like a path completely above or, at least, a distraction from the boredom or bashing we know. Thus, as each track feels like a slowly spinning wheel of instrumentals, Zauner’s voice comes like a runner trying to keep her cool over the fact that she is running to now where. Hence, she sporadically yells and growls her notes in what seems like a surge of emotional reality.
Japanese Breakfast – Machinist (Official Video)

When it hits you that you are not where you want to be in life songs such as, “Body Blade”, “Diving Woman”, and “Boyish” are your go to tracks. Like Zauner’s voice, Japanese Breakfast texturizes its arrangements so that they too can fluctuates between comfortable to rough. That typed of sonic elasticity makes, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, a seductive slap to your inner rage to tell it, “Wake Up AND LEAVE!”. To Buy Japanese Breakfast’s Soft Sounds From Another Planet On July 14 Click Here.
Japanese Breakfast – Boyish (Official Audio)