Japanese Breakfast - "For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)" label_Stony Plain Records A cat might have nine

A cat might have nine lives

For more of Basie's organ playing have a listen to 'One-Nighter' - a lovely medium tempo number on which he plays a restrained introductory solo

often joyous and ultimately full of hope

" all include Stewart counting in on the tracks

The Waterfall II mines it's mood of dreamy contemplation from certain heartbreak James had recently experienced

Japanese Breakfast - "For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)" label_Stony Plain Records A cat might have nineAfter a decade making the most of improvised recording spaces set in warehouses, trailers and lofts, Japanese Breakfast's fourth album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), marks the band's first proper studio release. Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined it's predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the