Japanese Breakfast has released a dreamy new track called ‘My Baby (Got Nothing At All)’, taken from Celine Song’s new A24 film Materialists.
The song is driven by shimmering melodies and has an off-kilter charm – and Japanese Breakfast’s signature dreamy and whimiscal style can be heard throughout.
Materialists stars Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal. According to the synopsis, the film is about a “young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.”
The film is out in cinemas in Australia on June 12, the US on June 13 and in the UK on August 15. The full Materialists score is by Daniel Pemberton, but Japanese Breakfast did the track ‘My Baby (Got Nothing At All)’. Listen below.
Japanese Breakfast‘s last album, ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)’, came out in March and was given five stars by NME in a review. It was praised for its style and songwriting, with reviewer Cordelia Lam calling it a “work of art.”
It concludes: “An acrid feeling pervades these artful scenes, like ladies walking through the streets of olde London with oranges under their noses to ward off the stench of plague. Opulence is the perfect playground for Zauner’s spiky sensibilities, an allegorical minefield for the morbidity and bloodiness of our hedonistic modern existences. No one nails that like Japanese Breakfast.”
In April, NME caught up with Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner to speak about ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)’ and its inspirations.
Speaking about where the idea for the album’s title came from, Zauner said: “It’s just a quote from a John Cheever book,” she said. “Do you think that he’s catering to the sad indie girls? I liked having a long-winded title, and for me it was just supposed to indicate that this is gonna be a record that’s really different from ‘Jubilee’… a very narrative, lyrically focused record.”
In April, Japanese Breakfast appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform a haunting version of ‘Picture Window’ – taken from the new album. The contemplative, tender performance captured the song’s inner darkness, with Zauner singing the chilling refrain: “All of my ghosts are real / All of my ghosts are my home”.
Japanese Breakfast is set to play at Glastonbury at the end of this month; however, their set clashes with indie heavyweights Beabadoobee and Fcukers.
Zauner was meant to perform at Worthy Farm back in 2023, however she could not make it due to “travel delays”. “We hustled out of Luxembourg at 9 pm, woke for customs at 3 am, and again for a 6 am ferry, hired an additional driver to floor it to our 12:30 set and due to various travel delays out of our control we are just not able to make it in time. We are devastated,” she wrote in a social media announcement at the time.