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- Summary: The third full-length release for Michelle Zauner was inspired in part by Bjork's Homogenic and Wilco's Summerteeth.
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- Record Label: Dead Oceans
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 19
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Mixed: 0 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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Jun 4, 2021‘Jubilee’ finds its creator older and wiser with melody, lyrics and storytelling pulling focus in a fashion that cements Michelle Zauner as a true creative force to be reckoned with. From here on out, Japanese Breakfast can go anywhere and we’ll follow.
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Jun 4, 2021It takes all the things that have always served Japanese Breakfast well — Zauner’s awareness of her voice and how best to deploy it, her knack for narrative and story as well as great hooks — and offers them fresh soil in which to grow.
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Jun 8, 2021This album certainly is a rush, and it’s also the best Japanese Breakfast album to date.
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Jun 2, 2021Jubilee’s 10 songs arrive fully baked, frosted with bigger beats and softer swirls, all stacked carefully on top of each other.
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Jun 11, 2021The album isn’t uplifting in a simplistic sense. Often, it’s blotted with shadows. In her lyrics, Zauner has a fondness for zig-zagging from ebullient to devastating, often when you least expect it (“With my luck you’ll be dead within the year / I’ve come to expect it,” she croons on ‘In Hell’). And yet at a molecular level, Jubilee is a rush.
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Jun 2, 2021Japanese Breakfast’s latest LP Jubilee is the project’s most ecstatic-sounding album to date, although one glance at the lyrics will tell you that Zauner isn’t done excavating the thornier aspects of dependency, devotion, and longing.
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UncutJun 2, 2021These are smart, confident and mostly fine-boned songs, though epic closer “Posing For Cars” leans on a lachrymose, slow-mo, alt.rock guitar passage. [Jul 2021, p.27]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 27
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Mixed: 1 out of 27
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Negative: 1 out of 27
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Jun 4, 2021
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Jun 15, 2021album of the year. i made an account just to say that. honestly have never used this website before.
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Oct 22, 2021This album is the best of the 2021 so far.
My top songs are Posing in bondage, savage good boy and be sweet. -
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Jun 19, 2021
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Aug 19, 2021
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Oct 29, 2021a magnificent exhibition of loss, growth, and finding moments of glory in between it all.
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Nov 23, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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