Japanese Breakfast have released their new EP, Live At Electric Lady, available exclusively on Spotify.
The EP, which features a string section, includes newly recorded live versions of “Be Sweet,” “Savage Good Boy,” “Tactics” and “Kokomo, IN.”
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“Recording at Electric Lady was truly the perfect experience,” frontwoman Michelle Zauner says. “The longer I’ve worked as a recording artist, the more I’ve realized it’s the simple stripped-down songs that are the hardest to get right. Having the opportunity to revisit the core catalog of my songwriting in a room with so much history, surrounded by engineers and gear of the highest caliber, was just a dream come true.”
Along with the newly recorded live songs, Japanese Breakfast covered Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So,” which was originally recorded at Electric Lady for their 1994 self-titled “Blue Album.”
“I played a very sloppy basement cover of ‘Say It Ain’t So’ once with my band in college, so it was fun to revisit it from the opposite angle, stripped down with a string quartet,” Zauner says. “Craig Hendrix did the arrangement, and Quartet 121 performed the hell out of it.”
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Japanese Breakfast’s EP is part of the Live At Electric Lady EP series, in which the studio partnered with Spotify to exclusively bring artists to record in the studio in partnership with the streaming service. Other artists involved in the project include Faye Webster, Dominic Fike, Remi Wolf and more.
You can listen to Japanese Breakfast’s EP below, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Live At Electric Lady EP tracklisting:
1. “Tactics”
2. “Lindsey”
3. “Ballad 0”
4. “Boyish”
5. “Be Sweet”
6. “Kokomo, IN”
7. “Savage Good Boy”
8. “Say It Ain’t So”
Japanese Breakfast tour dates:
10/29 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at the Factory ^
10/30 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall ^
10/31 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s (Levitation) ^
11/01 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger ^
11/03 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress (Outdoor Plaza) ^
11/04 – Tempe, AZ @ Coca-Cola Sun Deck at Sun Devil Stadium ^
11/07 – Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre ^
11/09 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades ^
11/11 – Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery ^
11/12 – San Luis Obispo, CA @ Madonna Inn ^
11/13 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst ^
11/14 – Perris, CA @ Desert Daze
11/15 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House ^
11/16 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House ^
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03/13 – Madrid, ES @ Sala Independence
03/14 – Barcelona, ES @ Sala Apolo
03/16 – Paris, FR @ La Maroquineire
03/17 – Antwerp, BE @ Trix
03/19 – Amsterdam, NE @ Paradiso Noord
03/20 – Hamburg, HH @ Molotow Musikclub
03/21 – Copenhagen, DE @ Hotel Cecil
03/22 – Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
03/23 – Cologne, DE @ Luxor
03/25 – Bristol, UK @ SXW
03/26 – Manchester, UK @ Academy 2
03/27 – Glasgow, UK @ St. Luke’s
03/28 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Community Room
03/30 – London, UK @ Kentish Town Forum
03/31 – Bristol, UK @ Marble Factory
06/09 – Porto, PT @ NOS Primavera Sound Festival
^ with SASAMI