Japanese Breakfast

Japanese Breakfast is the solo musical project of American musician Michelle Zauner (born March 29, 1989). Under the alias, Zauner has released two studio albums: "Psychopomp" (2016) and "Soft Sounds from Another Planet" (2017), with a third, "Jubilee", announced for release in June 2021.
Background.
1989-2016: Early life and career.
Michelle Zauner was born in Seoul, South Korea to a Korean mother and a Jewish-American father. Her parents moved to Eugene, Oregon when she was nine months old and she was raised there. 
Before Japanese Breakfast, Zauner fronted a solo project under the moniker Little Girl, Big Spoon. As a student at Bryn Mawr College, Zauner fronted Post Post, an indie pop band with other students from Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. Later, she started the Philadelphian emo band Little Big League. Zauner fronted the band between 2011 and 2014, before returning to her hometown of Eugene, Oregon in 2013 as her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She married Peter Bradley in 2014, two weeks before the death of her mother.
While in Oregon with her family, Zauner began recording solo music. She described the project as having much more to say after "Tropical Jinx", the 2014 studio album by Little Big League. Originally Zauner began to record samples of music as a meditative exercise and "instant gratification".
2016-2021: "Psychopomp" and "Soft Sounds From Another Planet".
On April 1, 2016, Japanese Breakfast released its first studio album, "Psychopomp," under Yellow K Records. Zauner described the debut album as a confrontation of her mother's death as well as "dark and heavy-handed", although she had a desire to make the music urgent and "sonically upbeat." 
On June 23, 2016, Japanese Breakfast was signed to the Dead Oceans label. Her second album, "Soft Sounds from Another Planet", was released on July 14, 2017, to "universal acclaim", with a Metacritic score of 83. In Brian Shultz's review for "The A.V. Club" he gave it an A- grade and said, "there’s a confidence and crispness to Soft Sounds that shows just how fully realized Zauner’s formerly homemade experiments have become."
In 2019, Japanese Breakfast released two singles under the W Hotels music label, "Essentially" and a cover of the Tears for Fears song, "Head Over Heels". On February 28, 2019, it was announced that the publishing rights to Michelle Zauner's memoir, "Crying in H Mart", were won at auction by Knopf.
In 2020, Japanese Breakfast collaborated with Ryan Galloway of the band Crying to form Bumper (stylized BUMPER) and released an EP titled "pop songs 2020".
2021-present: "Jubilee" and "Crying in H Mart".
On March 2, 2021 Zauner released the song, “Be Sweet,” the first single from the third Japanese Breakfast album, "Jubilee". The album will be released by Dead Oceans on June 4, 2021. The self-directed music video for "Be Sweet" features Marisa "Missy" Dabice and Zauner acting as FBI Agents tracking aliens. On March 15, Japanese Breakfast performed the songs "Be Sweet" and "Jimmy Fallon Big!" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. A second single, "Posing In Bondage", was released on April 8, 2021. The video, also directed by Zauner, features Harmony Tividad as a grocery store employee.
On April 20, 2021 Zauner released her first book "Crying in H Mart: A Memoir" via Alfred A. Knopf. The book debuted at number two on "The New York Times" nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending April 24, 2021.
The third and final single from "Jubilee", "Savage Good Boy", was released on May 19, 2021. The video, directed by Zauner, features actor Michael Imperioli as a billionaire in a bunker, with Zauner as a young woman he has convinced to live underground with him. It is a prequel to the video for "Posing in Bondage".
Artistry.
Michelle Geslani of Consequence of Sound has described Japanese Breakfast's sound as experimental pop. Anna Gaca of "Spin" has described it as lo-fi.
Zauner has said she hopes her work can influence more Asian-Americans to be involved in music.